Why Bother with What Three Words?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

donatj wrote: post #104

krisroadruck wrote: post #102

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But at least they tell you that it starts at $150K/year so you know right off the bat if it's even in your ballpark. A lot of SaaS products completely hide thier pricing entirely. I have zero interest in sitting through some sales-bro's phone pitch before I know if I'm even in the right pricing bracket. Nothing like sitting through an hour long preso only to find out afterwards something is 10x what you were looking…

Do they now? They certainly didn't at the time a few years ago. I at the time found some prices online searching around but nothing from them. We were very hopeful we'd get some sort of discount because we're in educational tech, so our income per user is very low, but nope. Free to $100k overnight is insane. We’ve got a guy whose full time job now is basically developing analytics tools for us and it’s a cheaper sol…

Post by NikkiA » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:14 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #30

asow92 wrote: post #14

Why don't you just make an open alternative is this is so disconcerting to you?

Google maps now includes plus codes which are open so I don't think W3W stands a chance anyway. Not should they. It's an idea you can implement in half an hour. It doesn't need to be a commercial business.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC

mchannon wrote: post #53

W3W suffers horribly from "call for price". You won't catch Google or Amazon making you call and talk to a human being (on GMT time no less) before figuring out if you can afford their service. I'm preparing my own version, truly open source (though with a premium component), with the following improvements over W3W: •Length-optimized. If one character sufficiently describes your location, you don't need to tack on e…

Post by toss1 » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

asow92 wrote: post #31

toss1 wrote: post #27

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Not OP, but I'd expect that it is because W3W is a basically a marketing campaign for a technology that doesn't actually solve a problem (or, more precisely, solves one corner of a problem while destroying many much broader solutions) Creating a knock-off that solves the OS problems still fails to recover from the broader problems that the W3W 'solution' provides zero ability to actually navigate without a continuous…

OP reads as if their main issue is the lack of inherent openness. All I'm saying is make an open alternative if is really so bothering to OP.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC