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Yeah, but I'm not talking about 'something'. I agree that it would be a giant pain in the butt for a toothbrush. But for a code analyzer you'd have to atleast r

by ksk 10y ago

Yeah, but I'm not talking about 'something'. I agree that it would be a giant pain in the butt for a toothbrush. But for a code analyzer you'd have to atleast run a trial/demo on your codebase to see if its actually valuable in your particular situation. Anyway, for me, picking up the phone and talking to someone for 5 mins doesn't seem that scandalous. I'm in an industry where I have to do it often so maybe I'm just used to it.

Kalium 10y ago
If I have to pick up a phone to call a person and hand over personal contact information before I can even consider evaluating if your product is useful to me... then odds are very good I will never, ever evaluate your product. I am not a fan of phone calls and I resent being coerced into one for the sake of some silly marketing metric. If your software is so hard to use that you can't post a basic demo somewhere, I probably don't want to use it anyway.
- ksk 10y ago
  I guess we have differing opinions. For me, that phone call gives me more information than what I give them. I can grill the technical sales on specific questions based on what they say about their product. If they let me chat with the devs, I'll be even more impressed. The way I see it.. If you're at the level of trust where you'd consider running a "random" executable on your machine and give it access to your source code, then what difference does it make if they have your email?
  - Kalium 10y ago
    I am not in the habit of assuming technical sales personnel will have useful things to say. Having been in some companies in the past with technical sales people, I wouldn't want to inflict a sales prospect on a dev who has other things to do. I have greater faith in my ability to deal with a random executable somewhat safely than I do my patience for a salesweasel who might know what source code is. So, yes, we have differing opinions. I don't see why I should have to hand over any non-essential data and deal with a human to try a purely software product.

by ksk 10y ago

Kalium 10y ago

If I have to pick up a phone to call a person and hand over personal contact information before I can even consider evaluating if your product is useful to me... then odds are very good I will never, ever evaluate your product. I am not a fan of phone calls and I resent being coerced into one for the sake of some silly marketing metric. If your software is so hard to use that you can't post a basic demo somewhere, I probably don't want to use it anyway.

ksk 10y ago
I guess we have differing opinions. For me, that phone call gives me more information than what I give them. I can grill the technical sales on specific questions based on what they say about their product. If they let me chat with the devs, I'll be even more impressed. The way I see it.. If you're at the level of trust where you'd consider running a "random" executable on your machine and give it access to your source code, then what difference does it make if they have your email?
- Kalium 10y ago
  I am not in the habit of assuming technical sales personnel will have useful things to say. Having been in some companies in the past with technical sales people, I wouldn't want to inflict a sales prospect on a dev who has other things to do. I have greater faith in my ability to deal with a random executable somewhat safely than I do my patience for a salesweasel who might know what source code is. So, yes, we have differing opinions. I don't see why I should have to hand over any non-essential data and deal with a human to try a purely software product.