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The scrapped feature also had an amazing story that I want to share again. It was statistics and there was a "live" statistics page. It did an API request to our backend every 30 seconds. It was deployed to production and it worked fine (nobody used it). Our COO had this page open and went to take a shit, after around 20 requests... Our full platform was down because sending 2 API request per minute was too much for that shitty backend to handle.
It was tested on our test environment and the amount of lab data was a lot lower.
2 devs got fired because of this feature. -
@cafecortado Hard to tell. They also read as marketing/sales speech and not as a real review
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@afaIk Not a big company. It targets a specific set of customers. But i'm still confused, the clients that they target should be more data-privacy aware. Their main customer group is shit like auto garages, independent bank offices*, independent insurances companies*, vets, doctors, ...
* all of the clients are usually 1-5 people companies and are paying a license to work for one of the big insurances/banks. -
These people who jumped ship are stupid. The AI market is oversaturated currently. Everybody and their grandmas peddle AI these days. In such situation, you can't ask for high subscription price. You ask too much, people will simply look away for alternatives. There are dozens of other alternatives. You ask too few, you will be in the red. Because AIs need high tech infrastructure. Either way, you are doomed. My take, leave AI to Meta and Google. They have the money to burn, you don't.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
My previous company that I ranted too much over recently released their AI product. They advertised it on their website with 3 testimonies; The CEO praising the product, The CEOs wife praising the AI suggestion and their freelance marketing guy praising it also.
This new feature/product is also advertised with an outdated screenshot of our product (it was redesigned twice by now) and the other screenshot is of a scrapped feature. At least they had 1 correct screenshot that was used twice in that webpage
Also, they forgot to attach the license billing to this new feature and lost 1.5months of revenue because of this :D
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