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This is a sales pitch for Coda.
by cr3ative 4y ago
This is a sales pitch for Coda.
- zeckalpha 4y agoMost things on HN are sales pitches of some kind.
- propter_hoc 4y agoTrue, but the fact that it is simultaneously a demo of their product, and also claims to be a secret to engineering productivity, means that the reader has a sense that their claims are biased, and they might just be talking their book. I also had that sense halfway through of "oh, this is just a pitch" and started dismissing it on that basis. It is interesting to think why the piece gave me that sense of distrust. Since they are a productivity company, it's not surprising that they might have insights into productivity, and also that they might orient their product development to enable those insights. Maybe if they had been more upfront at the beginning of the article as to what it was, I wouldn't have had the sense that I was bamboozled into reading a long pitch when I thought I was reading an impartial blog post.
- fmajid 4y agoProductivity yak-shaving is a socially acceptable alternative to work, like meetings.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoThe first thing I thought of was that MacOS text editor that was popular around 2010 or so. Turns out it has changed its name! (https://panic.com/coda/ https://panic.com/coda/). I wonder if anyone still uses it.