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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by billconan »

adius wrote: post #53
lox wrote: post #47

Anything that increases team productivity significantly. If my team of developers is > 10 then I'm probably spending about 100k per year in supporting tools: - source code management - server monitoring and metrics - payment processing - testing tools - continuous integration tools Any of those could easily cost 10K/year, or more, depending on what the team is doing and how fast they are growing. Beyond that, anythin…

Would https://feram.io fall into this category? (Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder)

is this like static analysis?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by [deleted] »

cdevs wrote: post #54
ZenoArrow wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you weren't pushing for Salesforce, but out of interest, did your company evaluate any other CRM platforms? If so, do you know why they chose Salesforce?

They bought into it when they were a tiny company over 7-8 years ago and barely used it for a few years, a few yeas ago me and some other devs joined and said why do you have this and why spend this much money for storing a customers email and some notes when we you also have 2 other systems doing the same thing. We tried to pull them away and build a small system for their small needs but that's when they dug the ho…

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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by deepnotderp »

marcofatica wrote: post #95
deepnotderp wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much everything. There's a landmine of bugs in even the best EDA software. I'd just like for the software to run nicely once, like TensorFlow... sigh. If you're thinking getting into this field, I might suggest a modular software architecture where the non-proprietary parts are open source and everything NDA-sensitive is kept closed source (pretty much anything the foundry touches/provides).

what are some or one of the largest offending bugs or class of bugs?

Compatibility is a huge one. Honestly, if you write a robust HSPICE to ___SPICE (or Xyce) translator, I'll be very grateful.

There are other problems too. Just in general, lots of bugs. For example, we'll run something and we'll get an obscure error, and then we'll ask the EDA company, and then two weeks later we'll get a generic "we'll look at it".

The hilarious thing is, sometimes the more expensive EDA companies aren't necessarily the better ones, our current partner isn't necessarily known as the most expensive tool suite, but we've actually had (so far at least >.<) had a much better experience with them than the bigger vendors.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by mud_dauber »

deepnotderp wrote: post #35

Better EDA tools. Oh my god, i would pay so much for that...

I spent a bunch of time with design teams. Some SOC, some standalone memory, some memory compilers.

I could definitely see the value in having a plug & play design flow.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by it33 »

Rjevski wrote: post #38
literallycancer wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they'd like matrix? https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html

Well we already had a proven self-hosted Slack alternative called Mattermost that pretty much everyone enjoyed. The push for XMPP is because some of those fanatics live in a parallel world where everyone is using XMPP and they'd be able to talk to people on other servers with it. Of course reality is very different. I'm leaving soon anyway so I wish them the best of luck with this (and I feel bad for some of the peop…

Mattermost team here, glad to hear we're making a difference!

Yes, we do have people wanting connectivity via XMPP, IRC, Discord, Slack, etc. There's "matterbridge" that offers those options for Mattermost: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by madnat »

deepnotderp wrote: post #104
marcofatica wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what are some or one of the largest offending bugs or class of bugs?

Compatibility is a huge one. Honestly, if you write a robust HSPICE to ___SPICE (or Xyce) translator, I'll be very grateful. There are other problems too. Just in general, lots of bugs. For example, we'll run something and we'll get an obscure error, and then we'll ask the EDA company, and then two weeks later we'll get a generic "we'll look at it". The hilarious thing is, sometimes the more expensive EDA companies a…

Isn't that the problem with whole industry? Every vendor makes it really hard to work with tools from other vendors. Furthermore initiaives like openaccess/accellera acctually seems like they are a paywall to stop others from entering the market.

Is your company big? Usually bigger EDA vendors don't care much for smaller design houses.

Btw. how are your experiences using Xyce? Do you get much speed up using its parallel processing capabilities?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by hakanderyal »

maxwin wrote: post #73

Enterprise pays the most for ERP. If you can create a better SAP, then you will make millions. I am saying as an SAP user, it is good but really expensive.

Creating an standard ERP system is not the hardest part (it's still really hard tho).

Deploying ERP for enterprise customers means writing tons of custom modules & processes specific to the customer. That's why integrating an ERP for the first time or switching vendors is costly and risky. Most successful ERP systems for enterprise customers are basically domain-specific frameworks to create customer-specific solutions.

However, there is still a big market for business management software for SMBs. The market is so big and ever expanding that I doubt it can ever be saturated. Aside from english-speaking market, there are even bigger opportunities for localized solutions.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by deepnotderp »

madnat wrote: post #107
deepnotderp wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compatibility is a huge one. Honestly, if you write a robust HSPICE to ___SPICE (or Xyce) translator, I'll be very grateful. There are other problems too. Just in general, lots of bugs. For example, we'll run something and we'll get an obscure error, and then we'll ask the EDA company, and then two weeks later we'll get a generic "we'll look at it". The hilarious thing is, sometimes the more expensive EDA companies a…

Isn't that the problem with whole industry? Every vendor makes it really hard to work with tools from other vendors. Furthermore initiaives like openaccess/accellera acctually seems like they are a paywall to stop others from entering the market. Is your company big? Usually bigger EDA vendors don't care much for smaller design houses. Btw. how are your experiences using Xyce? Do you get much speed up using its paral…

Our company isn't that big, and that's a fair point, but one of our circuit designers worked at Intel for over decade and reported the same experience.

Xyce is new and has some syntax differences, so it's not a mature software quite yet, so there are some troubles there. But as we've been starting to make it work, it's given us some amazing speedups on large clusters.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by owebmaster »

featherverse wrote: post #63

Curious. About 1 week ago I saw a post on reddit that asked "What product would you pay $20,000 for?" I thought that was odd, typically that's not how you plan a business, you find something or create something of value and then you sell it. You don't start from how much you want to earn and then look for ways to earn that much. Now here's a similar post, what would you pay "$10,000/yr" for. You can label me a skepti…

Someone with the right skillset can get some ideas from the discussion. Not randomly pick a good one, but the one that fits you.
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