Ask HN: Are you building a new product?
If yes, what?
They have invested heavily over the lifetime of the company in avoiding providing support. That reputation can never be revived.
Google does not have direct customer support in its DNA, it has the opposite, whatever that is.
They have not demonstrated relentless commitment to being available to resolve issues, and nothing matters more than this if you've bet your company on their platform.
If something goes really wrong. Amazon has your back and you'll find someone who'll listen who has the power to resolve it. Google, you're stuffed. If you've built you're business around that thing that went wrong, well time for regret.
It started out with outstanding software support for the most popular platforms but now it doesn't.
Develop an application in ReactJs? Stripe hand wave: ahh go build your own solution or use some third party thing somewhere over there in "the community, sure you can trust it".....whatever, we're busy, and ReactJs, hmmm haven't heard of that.
No data to back it up, might be wrong.
I can tell you I absolutely loathe pouring money into health insurers to prop up an overused and wasteful system. I'd much rather something like this personal account idea.
People would be far less likely to overuse health services if they felt they were paying personally.
That's a powerful idea.
Yep, this is A-grade crazy, and exactly my point. I would question if it's "sometimes", or "actually almost all the time, now that we think about it, there's not much that we CAN do with DynamoDB without writing application level database functionality."
Surely this has completely destroyed the value of this software.
Hard to imagine any good software written by HP anyway.
Don't they employ lowest cost programmers? Heck the probably designed it using UML or something silly like that, with hundreds of business analysts and vast numbers of stakeholder meetings all working to reach consensus, before getting all those lowest cost programmers to try to write what they think the spec might mean - all truly inspired software is written this way.
So don't complain when there's no money to pay for services.
Actually I'm not right: http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.h...
I mean if this drug was bad enough to go to prison for the last 50 years, but now it's not, what about others?
Cause it's fun.
If yes, what?
What use is this to anyone?
Humble suggestion is to pivot to a new or revised idea.
How is your traction right now?
Hey Ycombinator, how about adding "Solve the unbelievably huge problem of our Garbage World" to the request for startups list?YC emphasizes to "find a problem", well here is one of monster proportions, completely unsolved.The quantity of garbage we are creating is beyond comprehension, it's in every nook and cranny of our world. Is there nothing that startups can do to solve this whilst also...
edit: Judging from the lack of definitively positive about Startup Alley, maybe TechCrunch needs to make it more valuable somehow to participants?
Remains to be seen but I think that will be seen as an attack on the world, not on no-one.
I'd have to read a compelling technical explanation before believing this could perform better than a Linux or BSD kernel.
In most cases, the Go code is going to be single CPU, and that ain't the way the world works anymore. There's going to be a bunch of wasted computing power on that VM
What exactly happens with SMP with this sort of application?