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The blurb about the company at the end of this article made me wince: > Skyliner is an AWS platform for continuous delivery. We’re trying to build a straight j
by csense 10y ago
The blurb about the company at the end of this article made me wince:
> Skyliner is an AWS platform for continuous delivery. We’re trying to build a straight jacket that you can wear to stop hitting yourself in the face.
I'm usually one of those guys with an instinctive distaste for marketing, but it seems like this is one startup that badly needs some professional help in the way they talk to potential customers...
- Terr_ 10y agoI imagine it polls very well with developers who somewhat-distrust the flailings of "the business guys", but if the phrase gets past that layer...
- debaserab2 10y agoWhy would you ever buy a strait jacket in real life, though? The metaphor doesn't even make sense.
- skyrw 10y agoWell I guess if you're the type of person that can't stop hitting themselves in the face you may be in the market for one. Limited market though however.
- DrScump 10y agoa *straight jacket* that you can wear You shouldn't be allowed to sell a metaphor if you can't even spell it properly.
- bbcbasic 10y agoYes. 'trying to build' sounds like you might not succeed.
- kelnos 10y agoYes, and it's worse that they're trying to sell their deployment solution by taking a hard-line stance against a common deployment practice that they have a flat-out incorrect opinion about.
- davidhariri 10y agoFinally someone will prevent me from hitting myself in the face.