I miss 2010s YC until like 2017 ish when crypto sort of just caused a massive decline across the board.

I guess it is great if you're a grifter/scammer or looking to just sell off to a FANG.

Clockwise has thousands of companies using it already.

Buying the company gives them those customers. They shut it down presumably so they can do something with those customers they bought.

Making software is easy. Don’t kid yourself. If you’re a swe you’re an expense line item. Getting distribution is hard.

How does shutting the product down get them any customers?

"Hey you've been paying for this calendar thing for a while, but won't be able to any longer. Go use one of their competitors instead. BTW have you tried our CRM?"

To be fair, Salesforce IS a CRM and can offer people project/time/calendar/team collaboration features, even if it's not a DIRECT competitor to a modern wave of time management startups.

You don't typically buy clients via acquisition and then cancel them before you convert them, though...

Because you might shift them to another product line?

I don't personally care about Salesforce and think they're a low/mediocre company, but having seen acquisitions at my last company we'd shut them down but roll them into our ecosystem.

Obviously there's churn, but that's why you spend MONTHS doing due diligence to figure out if the strategy is sound. For example, most of the customers of one product we acquired were already using our product for other things, or competitor platforms. So, we managed to roll a bunch of enterprise customers onto our platform.

Its not just LOOK AT ME I WROTE SOME CODE :D lol

Or they might just be buying out the team to help them build out something to address gaps in their product.

But it is not just "why can't they just make it themselves"

Just shutting it down seems like the worst way to keep the customers. They'd be better off rebranding it as Salesforce Clockwise and then slowly transitioning them.

I suspect it's more of an acquihire.

Start your own nation and then start your own company, then.

Nobody is forcing you to use a smartphone. If your work needs you to use some app, they’ll buy you a phone if they respect you.

If you’re so upset just stop using it. But you won’t.

If they’re at a level where they are so oblivious, then I just don’t associate any further with them in my life.

If they’re employees I’ll try find better ones.

If they’re friends I might tell them.

He's signal maxxing so he gets a bigger bonus.

i just do stretches and "opposites" (like plank, rows, etc.) after sitting, every like hour or so.

seems to keep the posture in check

I like people who are enthusiastic about tech. It is pretty easy to tell when you have 60 minutes with them.

We're here to build stuff and improve continuously and if someone can't do that or seems to be the type of person who needs hand holding (they don't seem like they can even attempt to think on their own) then its not a good fit.

I think the problem recently is that SWE became way too easy. It is the easiest job right now if you can grind out a couple months you can make 400k plus easily. If you can't or find a way to make excuses about why you can't yngmi and I'm not interested in speaking with you.

But if you agree with that sentiment, then you know the game is rigged and gamed. So it is now important to sniff out the fakers. So many people can memorize LC, and then you throw a small twist and their brain which they've turned into a nvme drive to memorize and fast lookup shit crashes because their brain is basically a dual core and 4gb ram with a ton of storage of shit.

I'd rather take the person who's got a workstation and can do shit, instead of the person who maxxed out storage.

What I see is, whether your mental model is wired for resilience. Programming is basically math with logical reasoning. Having this basic skill is must. I always go for these fundamentals rather that heavy vibe coding.

agents can work with other agents, which is the interesting part

as for the openclaw obsession, i think eventually -

1. it will have a small niche market for off the rails experience

2. apple/google will build a walled garden theme park experience on siri/assistant and it will be pretty good and integrated. 99% of people will use this

Hey Siri, order my usual at Starbucks and schedule it for 7am.

It will use whatever APIs are exposed and schedule it. You run late, maybe 15 min before before you realize you'll be late. "Hey Siri, can we push my Starbucks order ahead by 15 minutes?" API says not possible, order already started. "Unfortunately, your order is already being made."

3-6 months later, agentic sdk integrations will make it possible for the Starbucks app to do close to real time order management based on location.

Ta da. Actual shit that is useful.

I think the only apps we'll use will be business apps and social/fun/engagement farming type of apps. Most other things, like ordering food or shopping, will be done by the on device assistants. Most of those are just static APIs and web hooks.

if you feel that way yngmi

Honestly posts like theirs are just indicative of someone who never understood their job/role.

People throw out terms like agile or waterfall, shit on agile etc. probably because they work at some worse than mediocre place let alone ever done their own thing.

It’s annoying lol