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+1. Last startup I worked at basically tore itself apart because certain leaders fantasized about spinning of "AWS for X" before we had even met our own needs.
by hamandcheese 2y ago
+1. Last startup I worked at basically tore itself apart because certain leaders fantasized about spinning of "AWS for X" before we had even met our own needs.
- physicsguy 2y agoOn this point it’s worth noting that internal users are very very different from external users too. An internal user that can wander over to Bob and say hey, this thing isn’t working quite right, I’ll grab a coffee with you and we can talk through it, is very different from a paying corporate who will not tolerate service falling below a certain standard. I joined a company where they were trying to transition an internal piece of condition monitoring software to be a SaaS app and it went really badly wrong, the sales people seemed to assume it was ready for this but it just wasn’t and needed a huge amount of hardening and security work, not to mention features to make it easier to use.
- theshrike79 2y agoSame here, C-staff tried to start a cloud service company "but X". There was no market for it, it was too expensive, too unwieldy and too nonstandard. AWS could do 90% of what the custom cloud product could and the last 10% was regulatory stuff, not technical.