Happy for the team at Wagon, but sad to see this. Was actually starting to enjoy using Wagon as a SQL client.
This was inevitable, though - the Wagon team didn't seem too concerned about trying to find a way to monetize the app.
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#22Is Textur (https://www.textur.com/) an alternative to Wagon?
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#23Wagon is also interesting for being a Haskell shop. One of the few Haskell start-ups I'm aware of. Super nice bunch of folks.
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#24Another great and innovative app thrown into the dust from an acquisition. They actually made working with SQL a joy.
Yup. Just submitted it to http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
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#25what is wagon?
It is(was) a company and its main product was a SQL client with built-in visualizations and features to save queries (just the query not the RS) in their cloud and share these queries with others peers in your organization.
In my opinion it was a very good product... Sad that they didn't open sourced it. =/
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#26Question for any users out there - was the valuable part of Wagon the querying/graphing capability, or the sharing part? I've been building a cross-platform desktop app (using Qt) that is basically a SQL querying tool for data analysts instead of developers (with a focus on analyzing data instead of being able to modify data). I've been trying to figure out how to price it and was a bit discouraged when I found Wagon…
Competing with free is really easy when things like this happen.
There is a simple question to determine your relationship to a company or product, are you the customer or the product. Did you pay for it?
If no, you're the product and they can arbitrarily change the rules of the game.
If yes, yay you.
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#27What I don't get is how dropbox fell behind in this enterprise storage game. Box was a terrible product, buggy UI and all. Dropbox was a joy to use and yet somehow Box seems to be leading in the enterprise market. I don't quite get it.
In 2009 I was running IT for a medium-sized digital agency. I contacted both Box and Dropbox to inquire about paying them a bunch of money if they could give us some more features such oauth/saml auth, and better logging/auditing of our user activity.
Box sales was super responsive, and even got me on the phone to chat with their engineering team about our needs.
Dropbox was completely unresponsive.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Enterprise sales! Enterprise is a completely different beast than consumer. Enterprise sales are 60% trust, 20% pricing, and 10% product. The language, practices and culture necessary to do well at selling to large enterprises and all of the differences in the underlying company are so different than consumer products. Enterprise is very misunderstood, even by many VCs!
> Enterprise sales are 60% trust, 20% pricing, and 10% product. Wow, now I know that's just anecdotal, but that feels about right, and very interesting to have written down. Thanks for that, it's good food for thought. (Now I'm just wondering what the last 10% is... ;) )
5% steak 5% strippers
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#29Congrats WagonHQ folks!
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#30What I don't get is how dropbox fell behind in this enterprise storage game. Box was a terrible product, buggy UI and all. Dropbox was a joy to use and yet somehow Box seems to be leading in the enterprise market. I don't quite get it.
In 2009 I was running IT for a medium-sized digital agency. I contacted both Box and Dropbox to inquire about paying them a bunch of money if they could give us some more features such oauth/saml auth, and better logging/auditing of our user activity. Box sales was super responsive, and even got me on the phone to chat with their engineering team about our needs. Dropbox was completely unresponsive.
Did you ever try anything like https://owncloud.org/ ? I came across it last night browsing random docker containers.