Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B

Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B by conqrr on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:08PM (#37859133)

At some point, companies become big enough that innovation is a risk (Innovater's dilemma). Atlassian is likely at this stage. Ofcourse, loom's tech is nothing impressive, one could argue that only a small segment of enterprise Loom customers would be willing to convert to Atlassian ecosystem. Nonetheless, the show must go on and Atlassian has to choose action instead of inaction to please the stock market. Good exit for loom though!

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Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B by faramarz on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:14PM (#37859215)

I think it's more likely that Atlassian gives it away for free to it's client base .. groups like Linear are coming after them and tools like Loom make a material difference in getting quality work out the door. we use it for outward facing and training material, but the royal honey is when you can async-align on product initiates down to the pixel.

Figma on the other hand will have to sway towards Atlassian territory to add value to the other parts of the pipeline.. the dev mode has made it clear they are headed that way, on their own terms.

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Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B by dalex00 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:16PM (#37860038)

Atlassian gives not much out for free the new whiteboard feature in confluence will also be monetizes like everything.

E.g. automations for their products will cost soon meaning you need to upgrade your product to next tier. After we implemented everywhere...

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Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B by eastbound on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:34PM (#37860258)

Atlassian is not afraid of innovating, they can’t. They just hired the worst developers again and again. Good students go to Canva, dropouts go to Atlassian.

Talk to partners. Everyone is pulling their hair at the new APIs. It’s architecturally bad, inside their systems. Even the architects are outputting crap! The best programmers of the company!

I’ve move my data outside Atlassian to prevent loss…

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Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B by heisgone on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:02PM (#37860651)

In 25 years, Atlassian is by far the worse platform I had to write code for. Worse than Oracle. You smell the pile of turd you are sitting on at every corner. For obvious reason, they embraced the corporate agile movement and can't coordonate anything. Their software is a patchwork of nonsense.

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