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... is that a good example? I think people who use the dating apps today mostly hate them, and find that they have misaligned incentives and/or encourage poor b
by abeppu 2y ago
... is that a good example? I think people who use the dating apps today mostly hate them, and find that they have misaligned incentives and/or encourage poor behavior. There's been generation of other services that shift in popularity (and network effects mean that lots of people shift) but I'm not convinced that this has ever involved delivering a better solution.
- michaelt 2y agoPeople mostly hate observability tooling too. The point isn't that people like or dislike - it's that the fact a system someone in the industry tells you isn't worth even trying to compete with might be replaced a handful of years later.
- abeppu 2y agoThe post author didn't claim that no one else would make money or attract customers in metrics-backed tools after Datadog and Prometheus -- but that they were the last and best. The "at that" in "You can’t catch up to them or beat them at that" seems pretty clearly about "best", i.e. quality of the solution. I claim that the in the intervening decade, dating apps have changed but not gotten better which suggests to me that the Plenty of Fish person may have been right, and this example is not convincingly making the point that flockonus wants to make.
- bloodyplonker22 2y agoIndeed. I hate to say this, but most people hate the dating apps because they're ugly. The top 10% are getting all the dates on these apps and the rest are left with endless swiping and only likes from scammers, bots, and pig butcherers. Trust me, I know because I'm ugly.