Today the site celebrates its first birthday. In the past 365 days since the launch of Approver.com, we’ve signed up thousands of active users who have created and uploaded thousands of documents. We’ve engaged in countless valuable discussions with users about our feature set and future product roadmap, and we’ve picked up paid users in five countries (thank you!).
Thanks too to our network of friends and advisors who have shown such generosity and given us invaluable encouragement over the past year.
In the past year the site has evolved from a place to simply upload and share Microsoft Office documents into a more fully-featured workgroup application that teams all over the world are using every day to work smarter and communicate more effectively.
But we’re not done yet. In the coming months we’ll continue to roll out upgrades to Approver.com to make the site easier to use and more powerful. The list of things we want to do is long (more than 150 projects at last count), but the higher-priority features we’re planning include:
- The ability for users to administer the accounts of other users
- Support for more granular and intelligent alerting
- Better support for uploading and sharing video
- A better experience for uploading files, and the ability to upload and share larger files
- Better community and social networking features, including the ability to have richer discussions and shared discussions within workgroups
- Support for new document types (such as the calendar document template we released a few weeks ago)
- Integration with other services you use such as Plaxo and Facebook
- Improvements to our web service API to make the site more accessible to developers
Got an idea for what you’d like to see in Year 2 of Approver.com? Let us know.
