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I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business

by hi2usir 13y ago

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

SirSkidmore 13y ago
It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.
- thwarted 13y ago
  Your use of "then" rather than "than" makes it read like you do two steps in a specific order rather than the, I assume, intent of using a better alternative for a time consuming process.
  - SirSkidmore 13y ago
    Ack! Sorry about that! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.
- hi2usir 13y ago
  I can't see how inviting users to a handful of services could take longer than 5-10 minutes? Is that really a "lot of time"?
  - dpcx 13y ago
    Per user. If, like my company, you hired 10 devs last year, that's over an hour of savings.
  - lyddonb 13y ago
    We have 100s of developers using Github, HipChat. This service would be quite useful. Especially the offboarding. Another thing that would be awesome if your could get even finer grained control of some of the services. Like having the ability to maintain some additional Github permissions. A big pain point for us right now is you need to have admin to manage teams, webhooks, etc. Have some levels between admin and write would be great (and I don't blame GH for having these. It's a more enterprise need.)
runako 13y ago
Distributed user permissions management is roughly as small an opportunity as Active Directory.
stonemetal 13y ago
Since when were first world problems not startup opportunities? It certainly doesn't sound like the next Google, but it could be a good side project that pays for his next vacation.
rscale 13y ago
Companies routinely fail to disable access to users who no longer need it, creating security risks and increasing costs. This seems very valuable to large teams, and like a small convenience to large teams.
- rscale 13y ago
  err... "a small convenience to small teams."
- shero 13y ago
  I've been involved at a few startups that over a year later my accounts still are not disabled. At one I logged in six months later and disabled myself.
shero 13y ago
A lot of really large tech startups are not even solving "first world problems".

by hi2usir 13y ago

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

SirSkidmore 13y ago

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

thwarted 13y ago
Your use of "then" rather than "than" makes it read like you do two steps in a specific order rather than the, I assume, intent of using a better alternative for a time consuming process.
- SirSkidmore 13y ago
  Ack! Sorry about that! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.
hi2usir 13y ago
I can't see how inviting users to a handful of services could take longer than 5-10 minutes? Is that really a "lot of time"?
- dpcx 13y ago
  Per user. If, like my company, you hired 10 devs last year, that's over an hour of savings.
- lyddonb 13y ago
  We have 100s of developers using Github, HipChat. This service would be quite useful. Especially the offboarding. Another thing that would be awesome if your could get even finer grained control of some of the services. Like having the ability to maintain some additional Github permissions. A big pain point for us right now is you need to have admin to manage teams, webhooks, etc. Have some levels between admin and write would be great (and I don't blame GH for having these. It's a more enterprise need.)

runako 13y ago

Distributed user permissions management is roughly as small an opportunity as Active Directory.

stonemetal 13y ago

Since when were first world problems not startup opportunities? It certainly doesn't sound like the next Google, but it could be a good side project that pays for his next vacation.

rscale 13y ago

Companies routinely fail to disable access to users who no longer need it, creating security risks and increasing costs. This seems very valuable to large teams, and like a small convenience to large teams.

rscale 13y ago
err... "a small convenience to small teams."
shero 13y ago
I've been involved at a few startups that over a year later my accounts still are not disabled. At one I logged in six months later and disabled myself.

shero 13y ago

A lot of really large tech startups are not even solving "first world problems".