Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by deanc on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:14AM
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If I can offer one minor criticism when i see every major tech company listed as your users, I instantly get a sense of a distrust as people do this to inflate the legitimacy and popularity of their service. Why should we trust the statement that all these companies are using your product? I think it’s disingenuous to suggest that a lone employee uses it or even a collection without an actual commitment from those companies. Imagine if every company that ever had traffic from a Google IP put this on their homepage. I could add it to my blog.
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Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by neilv on Sunday July 31, 2022 @01:50PM
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My favorite use of brand name-dropping is the kind when a competitor of a seed-stage startup generated a news piece on their new partnership with Microsoft...
I was instantly concerned, at a sign of a huge player with major platform control entering our space.
Then I looked into it a bit, and it appeared all the competitor company had gotten is normal free startup cloud credits for Azure.
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by Zopieux on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:23AM
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I find it dubious that employees from FAANGs would use a third -party coding environment when most have stringent policies about intellectual property and data sharing. A sandbox app like this would have to go through security review to be approved for corporate use. If available, the company would prefer to just host the app on prems.
Therefore I'm really curious how the author can tell it's used by FAANG employees. Corporate emails?
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by ianberdin on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:17AM
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Yep, I understand your feelings. I have Developers from these companies. Not a company itself, I am pretty bad at B2B sales.
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by scrollaway on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:19AM
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Those company-legitimacy boxes are useful for b2b sales when you're trying to sell a product that the companies in question actually pay for. This doesn't seem to be what you're trying to do so IMO I agree with the GP and you're better off removing it.
Look at the ReactJS homepage (https://reactjs.org/), it's the same as yours minus b2b fluff, and heaven knows they could list some companies in there :)
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by TheTaytay on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:17AM
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For what it’s worth, as an individual dev, if I can trust the logos, I think it does add social proof. “Trusted by developers at…” can be a way to contextualize it.
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by randomdigitz on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:52AM
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Who’s to say that person is right? If anything test it. That person may have a personal and incorrect feeling about the logos. They may be worse at b2b sales than you.
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by enduroman on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:00AM
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Make sure you are authorized to use their logos. I know Intel would request removal from sites like this when I worked there.
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by micromacrofoot on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:52AM
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lots of companies put a logo up without permission and just wait for a takedown request, there usually aren’t consequences as long as you comply
Re:Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 ...
by autoconfig on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:40PM
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As a counterpoint, I don’t think it’s disingenuous and I have zero problems with it. I would only find it disingenuous if the statement made was false (trusted by developers at). Comparing traffic alone with actual usage of a product is weird. Obviously two very different things.