Tell HN: Asana.com founded by that other facebook guy just got 9M and is hiring

What are they doing for a living ? Maybe I'm blind, but I cant find their product/service description, just a list of names that ring a bell, and vague marketing stuff written by a MBA.<p>Are they just selling hype or doing real stuff? Where can we see it ?

<i>Three 30" monitors. Actually, we let you spend up to $10K on your setup, however you think best.</i><p>makes you want to take on VC money with those kind of perks. :) we have a small amount of angel money but as founder I took half salary so we could spend a few bucks on decent monitors and task chairs for the developers. they could be better but we had to cheap it this first round.<p>I wonder how many hours a day Asana expects developers to crunch? My guys aren't addicted to Facebook/Twitter and we don't have office distractions or other 'perks'. We work all day in the zone, and I usually cut them off at 6pm and force them to go home so they stay mentally fresh.

I love comments in html code.<p>&#60;!-- I assure you, we typically write nicer code than this. This is git-it-done hacktown. -jr --&#62;

I'm the co-founder of Workstax (<a href="http://www.workstax.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.workstax.com</a>), a service which, from the sounds of their overview, is very similar to what these folks are going to build.<p>We have taken ideas from Facebook/Twitter, Reddit, and SharePoint, to build our messaging system for teams:<p>- from FB/Twitter, we took the idea of a Feed, Profile (and explicit support for tagging)<p>- from Reddit we took the idea of voting up/down to signal to the rest of the team (but we also introduced posting quotas to counter spam, and giving you the ability to use your quota to put posts/documents at the top of the feed)<p>- from SharePoint we took ideas about teams, documents, discussion threads, and specifically worked on search to make it better than that of SharePoint.<p>We pushed these features out just last Thursday and I wrote a part 1 blog entry about it here: <a href="http://joubert.posterous.com/separating-the-important-messages-from-the-ir" rel="nofollow">http://joubert.posterous.com/separating-the-important-messag...</a>

Interesting that they are now public. They are doing pure server-side JS from what I hear. Back in 2007-2008, they had various code reviews and/or rules to enforce completely stateless programming...they may have automated these manual checks via internal modifications to JSLint or something similar by this point.

how many angels/advisors do they have? :/