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Yes, but we are in 2024. Our expectations of products have changed, and especially after their fresh look on their email product, I hoped they had a new take on corporate chat as well.

It is a shame that the only take on how to compete against Slack is on price. Nothing new and different seems to have been done to the product.

I had a Tesla Model 3 which was very optimistic with the range. My BMW iX3 however is quite conservative and I can usually drive longer than the display states.

It looks like the AR glasses will depend on an external compute device, like the phone. If Facebook had invested more into their phone product, they would have a much easier time to compete against Apple/Google. Funny to think that they for a small amount of their VR investment (31b) they could have bought Xiaomi which would have given them a platform to expand on.

I remember as a 8-9 year old kid going to the library and finding a book about creating games in QBasic. I Spent most of the summer just copy and pasting the code from the book in hope of it working. As I didn't speak English it was very hard for me to debug, so any error just meant I had to start all over. Only a few games worked, but when it happened it was like magic.

Speed is important, but so is quality of results, especially when it comes to search. You can make something search blazingly fast, if it doesn't need to be accurate.

>Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise, built a cloud-based platform designed to provide paying customers access to on-demand scraping software and services.

It is interesting as how they try to position this as a Chinese attack on them.

Depending on the technology stack there are frameworks like SaaS Starter Kit for Phoenix: https://fullstackphoenix.com/saas-starter-kit

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I do believe that we have seen solutions trying to be a horizontal solution to problems, and I think the evolution will turn into vertical solutions. I have also invested a lot of time, as we are a couple of people who has been building on a vertical BI tool for the SaaS space for about a year.

The main goals are:

- Easy accessible for novice users. We want to make the Google for BI to help empower non-technical people (no more salespeople asking for reports from devs)

- More advanced editors for the more technical people

- Advanced alerts + integrations to 3rd parties

- Later on proactive reports

Hit me up on @philipanderse if you want to test it out.

If the company was bootstrapped it could just have kept running and creating profits. Many business can create value in the world, but who are not VC material. Unfortunately the people behind was hitting for the fences and missed, instead of playing it more safe.

That is pretty normal on high scaling SaaS solutions. If you earn 100k a year on a solution, and you know they in average stay for 5 years, you might spend 150k to acquire them as it is still a good business.