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> The game has changed. The system is cracking. Just say what your thing does. Or, better yet, show it to me in under 60 seconds. Web sites are the new banner
by andrewshawcare 8mo ago
> The game has changed. The system is cracking.
Just say what your thing does. Or, better yet, show it to me in under 60 seconds.
Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new `<blink>`.
- mentalgear 8mo agoExactly ... tired by all the marketing hyperbole talk. Just show what your product does in a simple example / showcase. If it's good, people will like it. You can save yourself a lot of text copy and user time that way.
- munk-a 8mo agoBut what if my product is just an attempt to make a cushy exit during the AI bubble?
- ezekg 8mo agoThey'll learn soon enough that selling to developers necessitates speaking clearly.
- LtWorf 8mo agoThey will sell to their managers
- jeltz 8mo agoNo. With this kind of bullshit they plan to try to sell to C-levels and board members. Edit: Actually it may just be aimed at investors. Who cares about having a product?
- properbrew 8mo ago> Actually it may just be aimed at investors The fact that the first image you see has "$60M seed" in big text, I have to agree, this does not feel aimed at devs.
- davepeck 8mo agoDohmke never spoke clearly to developers when he was GitHub's CEO.
- ambicapter 8mo agoA CEO is never speaking to developers, he's speaking to other CEOs.
- davepeck 8mo agoCEOs have many audiences; great CEOs communicate capably with each. FWIW it's not entirely clear to me who Entire's long-term customer is, but the (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy building with agents.
- eddythompson80 8mo agoThe problem is that when it comes to (commercial) developer tools and services, everyone can/wants to be everything, so why let a simple statement or a showcase limit you? "Hey, we are a container scanning service... But we can also be a container registry too, a CI, a KeyValue store, an agent sandbox provider, git hosting? We can do quick dev deployments/preview too. Want a private npm registry? Automated pull request reviews? Code Signing service? We are working on a new text editor btw"
- CodingJeebus 8mo agoI feel like these types of pages are less geared towards actual users of the product and more towards the investors who love the vague and flowery language. We're no longer in a world where the path to profitability was the objective goal anyway, it makes sense to me that the marketing of software is becoming decreasingly detached from reality.. It's almost like an extension of the "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" idea. If you're assessing a tool like this and the marketing isn't even trying to communicate to you, the user, what the product does, aren't you also kind of "the product" in this case too?
- rgxsh 8mo agoIt is not the system that is on crack ...
- dmix 8mo agoYou need to use AI to summarize the point of articles about AI products
- jtokoph 8mo agoI couldn’t figure out what they were doing in the first few screens of scrolling. Moved on.
- cess11 8mo agoSeems they install a Git hook or something that executes on commit and saves your chatbot logs associated with the commit hash. This is expected to somehow improve on the issue that people are synthesising much more code than they could read and understand, and make it easier to pass along a bigger context next time you query your chatbots, supposedly to stop them from repeating "mistakes" that have already wasted your time.
- 1970-01-01 8mo agoThey also seem bothered by color photography in 2026. All style, no substance.
- wellf 8mo agoWhat it does? Imagine a multi line commit message. Yes yes a Dropbox comment. But the problem here is 1 million people are doing the same thing. For this to be worth 60M seed I suspect they need to do something more than you can achieve by messing around locally." "Claude build me a script in bash to implement a Ralph loop with a KV store tied to my git commits for agent memory."
- eej71 8mo agoIts like a modern day redux of zombo com.
- StableAlkyne 8mo ago> Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new `<blink>`. It's been like this since the Dotcom era Or did you forget that you can do anything at zombo.com? It appears to be rather slow today, but here's a Wiki link for the uninitiated- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
- ziml77 8mo agoThe domain expired a few days ago and was purchased by someone else and then changed. There's a recreation of the original here https://html5zombo.com/ https://html5zombo.com/
- sph 8mo agoThat's the saddest news I've heard this year. It's still around, but has been redesigned and it's under "new management". Further proof that the internet is dying.
- calebbushner 8mo agoWait really?!? I’m surprised at how much that saddens me. What is the point of the internet without zombo com
- StableAlkyne 8mo agoAwful news to hear. May its limitless frontiers rest in peace.
- romanovcode 8mo agoSame, then I pasted URL to Claude and asked it to explain the product to me: Blocked. Irony is palpable.
- port11 8mo agoIt’s also a completely meaningless headline. It could be the beginning of just about any Medium post, corporate blog, or cyberpunk Steam game.