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Yes, exactly. I see a lot of these comments on HN made by folks from-the-outside-looking-in. "I tried out this product. It had this bug I noticed that affected
by confiscate 9y ago
Yes, exactly. I see a lot of these comments on HN made by folks from-the-outside-looking-in.
"I tried out this product. It had this bug I noticed that affected me a lot. By extension, this entire company will fail."
That's like saying, I went to a restaurant. I noticed the silverware is a bit dirty, thus the shop will close down.
Usually the commenter is someone who works in a specialized day job. Like an engineer :) Or silverware washer at a restaurant. Someone who sees and handles a narrow part of the picture.
There are many possible reasons why Mattermark closed down. I am sad to see it. But it is probably not due to a specific feature or bug. There are probably reasons beyond the description in the article that led to the disappointing outcome. I hope Techcrunch will be able to find the reasons behind this so other startups can learn and avoid future tragedies :(
- gk1 9y agoNo, this is more like a pizza place that can't make good pizza. Oh and there are reports that they weren't able to sell their pizza: > We’re told that it was hard to convince people to pay for the business intel in a competitive landscape that includes Crunchbase, PitchBook and CB Insights.
- confiscate 9y agoYes, so the problem is not that the pizza quality is not good enough in some way. It's way bigger than that. It's that it's hard to convince people to even buy pizza. That's a much bigger-picture issue than saying "pizza not fresh, so they will close down". Put another way, making the pizza fresher, is not going to substantially improve the situation. Fixing the issues you saw (e.g. update the database to be super fresh, fix the contact feature so it is 100% working) will not get Mattermark out of it's current situation (unfortunately)
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