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Congrats on your launch, though it seems you are getting slammed here and it may not be the reception you anticipated. I'm genuinely curious if you talked to yo

Congrats on your launch, though it seems you are getting slammed here and it may not be the reception you anticipated. I'm genuinely curious if you talked to your target demographic prior to this or only postulated that this would be a viable product with the proposed revenue model? The HN crowd is brutally candid and honest. Hopefully the criticism you are currently receiving can be structured into a revision of the product.

cieplik 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words! We actually did (and still do) talk to our Users via Discord, github issues, as well as 1-1 User interviews. In fact, I participated in a very first user research sessions (back then it was me and the ENTIRE WARP TEAM) almost a year ago, and after a session like this I decided to interview with the company and changed my job, and joined Warp :))
steveklabnik 5y ago
This isn't even the first thread on HN about Warp. Some never took off, but both https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835057 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27834649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27834649 have a bunch of comments. The Discord has almost 900 people in it.
andsbf 5y ago
I still to see something that is not "slammed" here on HN. I read this article the other day that people with "technical background"[1] have this "instinct" to quickly look for "wrongs/fails" to avoid failures, issue here is, we express our selves terribly and most of the time it will go blunt on comments. This lead a whole discussion on the topic, some people it was the right thing to do, and others thought that we should be more human/kind to each others. The article above was actually about Pull-Request/Code-reviews, and how some people will mostly scrutinise others people work to feel like a hero. [1] I believe most of us here have a "technical background", who else uses a "ugly forum"

cieplik 5y ago

Thanks for the kind words! We actually did (and still do) talk to our Users via Discord, github issues, as well as 1-1 User interviews. In fact, I participated in a very first user research sessions (back then it was me and the ENTIRE WARP TEAM) almost a year ago, and after a session like this I decided to interview with the company and changed my job, and joined Warp :))

steveklabnik 5y ago

This isn't even the first thread on HN about Warp. Some never took off, but both https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835057 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27834649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27834649 have a bunch of comments. The Discord has almost 900 people in it.

andsbf 5y ago

I still to see something that is not "slammed" here on HN. I read this article the other day that people with "technical background"[1] have this "instinct" to quickly look for "wrongs/fails" to avoid failures, issue here is, we express our selves terribly and most of the time it will go blunt on comments. This lead a whole discussion on the topic, some people it was the right thing to do, and others thought that we should be more human/kind to each others. The article above was actually about Pull-Request/Code-reviews, and how some people will mostly scrutinise others people work to feel like a hero. [1] I believe most of us here have a "technical background", who else uses a "ugly forum"