| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago |
| What's WILD is people ending up relying on these essentially startup-slops that just serves to give you future technical debt once you have to eventually moved away because they got acquired by $INSERT_BAD_GUY_OF_THE_MONTH |
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| ▲ | shimman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The only people "relying" on this are other startups whose VC benefactors force them to use other products under their portfolio in order to goose up their numbers. |
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| ▲ | b65e8bee43c2ed0 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | that makes so much sense. I always wondered how the fuck did all those ZIRP era "hello world as a service" bullshit startups have any customers at all. | | |
| ▲ | nerdsniper 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, my org decided to pay for Monday.com, and still does, even though no one uses it. We also pay for Asana, and the wonks use that instead. I suspect a lot of larger orgs just have site-wide subscriptions with volume discounts that they don’t need. |
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| ▲ | CityOfThrowaway 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've raised venture from a lot of the big firms (and a lot of small firms) and have never had any of them attempt to force me to use anything. | | |
| ▲ | windexh8er 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You may not even see it. I worked in a startup whose founder had money dipped into about a dozen products in the cyber security vertical. Many of those startups, I later found out, had access or used products from others in his portfolio. Basically taking $50k and cycling it through all of them buying something from the other one. I doubt it was a money laundering scheme, but it sure was convenient to just add logos of "customers" to the Nascar pitch slide. | | | |
| ▲ | rafram 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Go to the website of pretty much any AI startupslop, Google who led their series A, then Google who led the series A of the other AI startups (it’s always other AI startups) whose logos they show as users/testimonials/case studies on their landing page. You’ll start seeing a pattern. | | | |
| ▲ | gneray 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | +1 |
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| ▲ | yawnxyz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Stainless was a fantastic product; every product/service has to start from somewhere |
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| ▲ | jMyles 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It may be that there are many projects relying on Stainless, or, as a sibling comment points out, it may be portfolio-based stack selection rather than actual feature dependence. Either way, it does seem irresponsible and tone deaf for an acquiring/hiring company and an acquired/hired company to send these conflicting signals. If one puts oneself out there as dependable in the face hopes and needs of other, smaller, up-and-coming projects, then a rapid wind-down for $ is incongruent with such a posture. So much so that, at least for my part, I'd be quite reluctant to hire someone who had engaged in this sort of bob-and-weave pursuit. |
