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God why do startup sites suck so much? Why do I need ChatGPT to cut through the marketing speak to understand what they are actually selling? I literally spent

by drdrek 1y ago

God why do startup sites suck so much? Why do I need ChatGPT to cut through the marketing speak to understand what they are actually selling? I literally spent 5 minutes in the site trying to understand before giving up and asking GPT... Cool 1999 aesthetics though

devmor 1y ago
If you scroll past the marketing blurb, I think the rest of the main page explains in pretty clear and simple terms what their product is. What did you find confusing about it?
mlnj 1y ago
Reading the first 20 lines of text that they have broken down in to: Company Name Single line Headline Problem Our Solution Gives you the entire company premise and product description.
qualeed 1y ago
They explain what they do pretty much immediately on the home page, I'm not too sure where the confusion comes from.
diggan 1y ago
Maybe I'm old-school, but I clicked on the logo in the top left, then read the first sentence which reads "On-demand elastic resources", which gives me some idea about what it is, and then later it says "A rack-scale system, built true to cloud architecture, that you can own and operate in your data center." which makes me 100% understand what the product is. Do new internet users not know that the landing page usually contains information about the product they're talking about in their blog posts? 99% of the cases you can find what you're looking for on the landing page, and it took me a whole of 30 seconds to get here, writing this comment took longer time.
- sofixa 1y ago
  > On-demand elastic resources Which is kind of wrong, because there is nothing elastic nor "on demand" about metal you buy.
  - diggan 1y ago
    The hardware isn't elastic, obviously. But if a IT department sets up a Oxide rack, then the software development department can get the same sort of "on-demand 'elastic' resources" provisioned in that rack. I think that's what they're getting at. But yeah, obviously hardware itself can't be on-demand.
  - ironhaven 1y ago
    Elastic as in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2). Flexible virtual machines provisioned with a web API not rubbery stretchy servers
    - sofixa 1y ago
      By that metric even VMware's vSphere with its abominable excuses for APIs also count as elastic. If you have to manage the hardware yourself, have to plan and pay for upfront for the maximum capacity you would need, and there are fixed limits you can hit and have to plan around yourself, it's not elastic.
actionfromafar 1y ago
Frontpage: "A rack-scale system, built true to cloud architecture, that you can own and operate in your data center." Seems pretty clear to me.
voganmother42 1y ago
The usage/meaning of “private cloud” has gotten weird
subarctic 1y ago
They make giant rack scale computers for data centers, i think that's the best way to explain it quickly to someone with my background who's never been in a data center but has an imaginary idea of what they look like. And then as a follow up you have to explain that - they sell an entire rack full of servers - they're the only ones that do this. Normally you have to buy all the pieces and put it together yourself, or pay someone to put it together for you but all the parts are kind of designed on their own by different companies so it's kind of a mess. Oxide makes one big rack with like 16-32 servers and it's all designed by them and just works, so you just plug it in and you have servers you can put a bunch of vms on. Oh and they're huge, each one literally costs like a million dollars

by drdrek 1y ago

devmor 1y ago

If you scroll past the marketing blurb, I think the rest of the main page explains in pretty clear and simple terms what their product is. What did you find confusing about it?

mlnj 1y ago

Reading the first 20 lines of text that they have broken down in to: Company Name Single line Headline Problem Our Solution Gives you the entire company premise and product description.

qualeed 1y ago

They explain what they do pretty much immediately on the home page, I'm not too sure where the confusion comes from.

diggan 1y ago

Maybe I'm old-school, but I clicked on the logo in the top left, then read the first sentence which reads "On-demand elastic resources", which gives me some idea about what it is, and then later it says "A rack-scale system, built true to cloud architecture, that you can own and operate in your data center." which makes me 100% understand what the product is. Do new internet users not know that the landing page usually contains information about the product they're talking about in their blog posts? 99% of the cases you can find what you're looking for on the landing page, and it took me a whole of 30 seconds to get here, writing this comment took longer time.

sofixa 1y ago
> On-demand elastic resources Which is kind of wrong, because there is nothing elastic nor "on demand" about metal you buy.
- diggan 1y ago
  The hardware isn't elastic, obviously. But if a IT department sets up a Oxide rack, then the software development department can get the same sort of "on-demand 'elastic' resources" provisioned in that rack. I think that's what they're getting at. But yeah, obviously hardware itself can't be on-demand.
- ironhaven 1y ago
  Elastic as in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2). Flexible virtual machines provisioned with a web API not rubbery stretchy servers
  - sofixa 1y ago
    By that metric even VMware's vSphere with its abominable excuses for APIs also count as elastic. If you have to manage the hardware yourself, have to plan and pay for upfront for the maximum capacity you would need, and there are fixed limits you can hit and have to plan around yourself, it's not elastic.

actionfromafar 1y ago

Frontpage: "A rack-scale system, built true to cloud architecture, that you can own and operate in your data center." Seems pretty clear to me.

voganmother42 1y ago

The usage/meaning of “private cloud” has gotten weird

subarctic 1y ago

They make giant rack scale computers for data centers, i think that's the best way to explain it quickly to someone with my background who's never been in a data center but has an imaginary idea of what they look like. And then as a follow up you have to explain that - they sell an entire rack full of servers - they're the only ones that do this. Normally you have to buy all the pieces and put it together yourself, or pay someone to put it together for you but all the parts are kind of designed on their own by different companies so it's kind of a mess. Oxide makes one big rack with like 16-32 servers and it's all designed by them and just works, so you just plug it in and you have servers you can put a bunch of vms on. Oh and they're huge, each one literally costs like a million dollars