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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by monkpit on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:40AM (#40928157)
It looks like they don’t have a designer, which is a smell for sure if you were looking for some indication of how serious the place is. It’s not the choice of framework that makes the difference, it’s the fact that it looks like it was made by 1 lone engineer who is doing their best, but still isn’t a designer.
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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by threetonesun on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @12:15PM (#40928478)
Using memes as marketing material was more questionable than the design (which I agree is equally uninspiring).
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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by neilv on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @12:02PM (#40928357)
Can they be serious without taking on VC (which they've implied is misaligned with customer goals)?

If so, what would that serious look like?

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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by tptacek on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @01:04PM (#40928972)
No, it isn't.
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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by monkpit on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:39PM (#40929992)
Do you have anything to back up your claim other than anecdote?

I was able to find this study:

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6347

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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by tptacek on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:52PM (#40930127)
I didn't even supply an anecdote; why would I need one? It's a self-evidently false claim.
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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by monkpit on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:56PM (#40930856)
I’m not sure I follow, but you have a good day.
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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by rachofsunshine on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:45PM (#40930061)
We don't have a designer. In fact, I appreciate your optimism in thinking the website was built by an engineer, because it wasn't (I did it myself over a weekend).

We're a bootstrapped startup in a hostile environment being funded by me throwing a chunk of my savings at the problem. Do you think that's the most important thing for us to spend money on?

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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by monkpit on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:54PM (#40930833)
You do what you want, but you might consider listening to potential users and being a little less defensive.

Nobody is forcing you to use your savings for this, I can understand that you’d take any feedback personally but you should try not to.

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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by rachofsunshine on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:21PM (#40932436)
You know, that's fair, I was a little defensive about it. Sorry about that.

I do still think you're expecting something somewhat unreasonable from a company at our stage, but I shouldn't have said so and my mindset replying earlier was not in the right place.

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Re:Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte by mech422 on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:09PM (#40940636)
Personally, I'm an old school, social mis-fit geek .. So I actually prefer something a bit quirky/less glossy as long as the information is there.. For some reason that feels more 'human' and 'honest' then some bland,shiny PR firm crud that is solely focused on 'conversions' (signups).

But to each his own I guess....

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