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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

OJFord wrote: post #58
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #52

> Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam? I mean... Yes? Spamming and calling people is what Datadog is known for; you might as well ask if people have been shaken down by Oracle, seen Google discontinue a product, or had Microsoft force their laptop to reboot at an inconvenient time. That's their whole thing .

Ha, I know that now I suppose. Honestly wasn't aware of that reputation before this thread. I thought it was a fairly nice-looking well-regarded service that I hadn't used; was surprised and turned off by the emails. There goes my hope someone there would see the thread and get them to knock it off, I suppose, if it's so ingrained.

Yeah, that's fair. Live and learn; everyone has to discover these things somehow.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

dhr wrote: post #53
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #50

[Self-plug] After building poachme.dev with a friend, I have personally found that a lot of people who spam really do it because it's low cost and wasting your time costs them nothing so I personally grab the standard reply message template and hit them with a "Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this: https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro " I know they didn't "read my profile" or "find me to…

ha this is really cool - has anyone paid the $100 for a call with you, with regard to recruiting or sales spam?

Yes, and those people get my full priority.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by joelres »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #50

[Self-plug] After building poachme.dev with a friend, I have personally found that a lot of people who spam really do it because it's low cost and wasting your time costs them nothing so I personally grab the standard reply message template and hit them with a "Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this: https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro " I know they didn't "read my profile" or "find me to…

Off-topic, tried to sign up on mobile - some strange auto scroll meant I couldn’t get past filling in my name! Happy to provide more info if you can’t repro.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

joelres wrote: post #63
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #50

[Self-plug] After building poachme.dev with a friend, I have personally found that a lot of people who spam really do it because it's low cost and wasting your time costs them nothing so I personally grab the standard reply message template and hit them with a "Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this: https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro " I know they didn't "read my profile" or "find me to…

Off-topic, tried to sign up on mobile - some strange auto scroll meant I couldn’t get past filling in my name! Happy to provide more info if you can’t repro.

That's kinda weird, I will tell you that signups are kinda limited right now since we're slowly rolling out features since we want to offer value to people.

Try the sign-up link with the referral code (https://bk.poachme.dev/PayMeToo)

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by shyn3 »

marviel wrote: post #17
cameronh90 wrote: post #16

I get a lot of Datadog spam, but was amusingly unable to actually convert a trial account into a paying account. I emailed multiple addresses multiple times, including the support email, the trial onboarding contact and the addresses that were spamming me, and nobody ever replied. Found an alternative and haven't looked at them since. EDIT: I had a similar but different experience with Google, where their sales were…

What alternative did you find? Their product has always seemed nice in demos, but the aggressive marketing has made it hard for me to look at getting more involved.

If you are a windows shop avoid DD like the plague. If you don't have Pwsh devs avoid new relic for windows.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by hysan »

I got cold contacted through my public phone # a while back when I was actively interviewing and had my resume public. They had found me by looking up my employer at the time in LinkedIn. Reason being that we had used Datadog in the past but no longer were. It was honestly a bit creepy, but I gave them the time of day to ask me questions so as to not burn a potential bridge.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by pryelluw »

hijinks wrote: post #23

My wife is friends someone a DD sales person. I had no idea what her husband did for a living since I didn't know either. So we go over to their house for dinner and he finds out I'm head of a devops/SRE team and I got a DD sales pitch for close to 2 hours. I've never wanted to excuse myself to the bathroom and just sit in there doing nothing all night more in all my life.

That really sucks.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by 6stringmerc »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #50

[Self-plug] After building poachme.dev with a friend, I have personally found that a lot of people who spam really do it because it's low cost and wasting your time costs them nothing so I personally grab the standard reply message template and hit them with a "Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this: https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro " I know they didn't "read my profile" or "find me to…

Is this side hustle approved and sanctioned by your employer the FAA, or have you gone and created something possibly on company (taxpayer) time which means the FAA actually has an ownership interest in poachme.dev?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

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Post by AishwaryaVenkat »

time0ut wrote: post #28
marviel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What alternative did you find? Their product has always seemed nice in demos, but the aggressive marketing has made it hard for me to look at getting more involved.

It really depends on what you are trying to do and what you are willing to spend. If you are looking for APM, take a look at New Relic. I've used both in production at similar (~1m requests/hour (DD) and ~10m requests/hour (NR)) scales. They are both good and expensive. If you just want logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts, there are tons of alternatives that are cheaper and better.

In that case, Atatus is affordable in my opinion.
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