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> You could easily spin up a forum where power users help each other tell me you've never run anything without telling me you've never run anything...

it is very funny that most of the (presumably germans) in the comments are saying "it's not that bad and it's fine because you chose a complicated LLC structure"

you might enjoy cities: skylines

Super awesome, love the vision, exciting to try something in this space, and agreed with your core observations and conclusions. My only criticism is that the interior / package ne…

the twitter convo is pretty good, but AMA here if you're interested!

moving from offense to defense... tends to be a bad sign

been using the beta - really love it

yes :)

Oh good catch Todd, sorry about that - updated. And totally agreed, both products take a slightly different approach and have different strengths and weaknesses, try them both and …

it kinda is :) - 10 years in, we're just getting started!

the other major difference is the design principles: our core belief is that everyone owns quality, and so we build for the 'no code' user as well. It's a really hard bar to hit, b…

Nowhere do we say that the entire product organization - devs, designers, PMs - should not care about quality. It's a question of ownership and focus.

First off, we totally agree on this: "true product Quality is dependent upon an endemic cultural philosophy of an organization." What we're asking you to consider is how much of th…

We have a free trial - you should try it instead of criticizing theory, I would love to get your feedback on the actual product, here or directly (I'm fred@rainforestqa.com). Regar…

> to say developers should not be interest or responsible for quality is most certainly a cop out Read the piece - it says no such thing. It's talking about 'ownership', which is d…

I totally see your point here - it's frustrating that how I presented it undermined the impact of the core point, which is that siloed ownership of quality is an anti-pattern, and …

[author here] You are absolutely right: the optimal setup is a cross-functional team of domain experts collaborating on solving the customer's problem. The article is meant to poin…

I think the ideal team setup is one you allude to: a cross-functional team with experts from each domain collaborating together. My intent was not to say that can't happen - but th…

[author here] Both are solid points! Regarding the incentive structure, I think you're right - there's no way to eliminate the friction that comes from competing incentives. Our ex…

this has been our experience as well - sadly, however, most (all?) teams specialize and silo as they scale, and so you don't tend to see this setup beyond the very early stage

There are obviously substantive issues with the messaging - however, the piece reads like a hand-wavey bad-faith attempt at creating controversy for internet hype, for an upcoming …

I don't disagree, but not sure how you can make that claim given that you didn't ever experience your idealized version (which never existed after the 70s)

it's too bad really, the long-haul price competition they created on their routes was fantastic