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Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by gmjosack »

hacker_newz wrote: post #110
thanatos_dem wrote: post #28

I run a service that integrates with pager duty on behalf of our users, and man oh man did they make some poor design choices with their API. The most glaring one is their integration keys, which is how you trigger an alert. They’re just v4 uuids with the hyphens removed, or in other words, completely random. This is fine by itself, except they have two versions of their event API, and keys for the v1 API don’t work…

You do realize the v1 API was deprecated last year?

That's only true of the REST API. The Events API has it's own v1/v2 split and I don't believe there has been any mention of the v1 Events API being deprecated.

Re: PagerDuty S-1

#112

Post by redwood »

jgalt212 wrote: post #67
raiyu wrote: post #63

They just raised a round in September of 2018 at $1.3B so it will be interesting to see where the public market values the company. 2017 revenue: $79.6MM 2018 revenue (est): $117.8MM 2019 revenue (est): $164.9MM 2020 revenue (est): $214.3MM Safe guess potentially 10x current year (2019) which would be $1.6B. Considering that they need an IPO pop the shares would be priced about 20-25% lower, bringing them back to tha…

You need to dream bigger. Palantir looking to go public at 45X revenues. https://news.crunchbase.com/news/palantirs-2018-revenue-said...

That would be so absurd

Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by DKnoll »

chx wrote: post #78

I set my PagerDuty to the meow sound and I often refer to our processes as meow driven development as in I don't like my phone to meow desperately.

If I worked in the same office as you I would 100% play Jingle Cats when walking past.

If I don't change my page sound frequently enough I start getting a weird Pavlovian response.

Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by jkravitz61 »

baq wrote: post #14
umeshunni wrote: post #6

2017: $79.6M revenue, ($38M)in losses. 9 months of 2018: $84M revenue, ($34.5M) in losses. Costs seem generally under control except the significant growth (+66%) in G&A expenses. Why the hurry to IPO?

My mostly uninformed opinion is that smart money smells blood around the corner and wants to cash out before it gets bad. Mass retail store closures, layoffs, IPOs, ...

Even if true, this will largely not affect a business like this. They make small money on each company and scale through the shear number of total companies that pay a few thousand dollars a month to use this service. People are not going to stop going on call because their revenue dropped 20%...

Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by pixelmonkey »

eastendguy wrote: post #27
stygiansonic wrote: post #11

Interesting that they reference their Glassdoor rating: The strength of our culture is key to attracting and retaining the best talent, as demonstrated by our high employee retention rates, and, as of January 31, 2019, a Glassdoor rating of 4.5 out of 5 and 100% approval rating of our chief executive officer.

Uh, that is a big negative sign for me, because they have an an "employer active" account. In other words, they pay for the privilege to get reviews deleted. > 100% approval rating of our chief executive officer. So I am 99.99% sure that HR was tasked with removing bad reviews ;-)

How does one know when an account is "employer active"?

Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by walshemj »

Why would any sane person buy shares with this power vested in the board

"authorize our board of directors to issue, without further action by the stockholders, shares of undesignated preferred stock with terms, rights, and preferences determined by our board of directors that may be senior to our common stock;"

Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by us0r »

>In October 2018, the Company entered into a cloud services agreement for third-party hosting of the Company’s software platform through October 2021. The Company is committed to spend a total of $13.5 million for the services through the term of the agreement

Not as bad as some of the others lately but this works out to around 375k/month.

Re: PagerDuty S-1

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Post by walshemj »

dharmab wrote: post #65
whalesalad wrote: post #12

PagerDuty feels like abandonware. It hasn't changed in the last 4-5 years.

When I call my insurance or bank, I get a pleasant voice interface. When PagerDuty calls my carphone (or worse, my motorcycle helmet communicator), I get an inhuman civil defense robot from 1980 that only accepts touch-tone inputs.

Better than old school pagers from the 80's which just had an earth shattering sound.

I remember being on call for Telecom Gold (uk version of Tymnet) got home from London late pager fell down the side of my bed and I didn't notice.

Later that night at 3am it went off like a small nuke and it literally took me 20 mins and a coffee to gather myself to be able to call the Operators and then logon (dial up to a x.25 PAD)

Re: PagerDuty S-1

#120

Post by coredog64 »

whalesalad wrote: post #12

PagerDuty feels like abandonware. It hasn't changed in the last 4-5 years.

If you want a really crappy experience, try something like Everbridge. It’s a platform for calling parents to tell them today is a snow day masquerading as an IT alerting platform. You’ll be begging for PagerDuty in weeks.
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