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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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>it bothered me because I come here to get away from all the propaganda. Somehow, I doubt this statement is true, given the rest of your post, which was in no way adding to the conversation, is exactly the sort of propaganda you claim to try and get away from. >We have to educate and inform. Which you did not do in any stretch of the words - all you did was add noise.

Oh, facts are propaganda now? Well, I know who you voted for then. At first I thought you were talking about maintaining quality but now I’m pretty sure I touched a nerve. lol.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

I haven't used teams but if it's so bad there has to be a good open source alternative? Let's build one???

There are proprietary competitors.

Oracle have a dark team working on what will become "Oracle Team Fusion".

I'm looking forward to the competition.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

Honestly I'm here for it, because it's an option for a market of groups that don't otherwise have the opportunity to deploy this kind of capability. Teams feelings aside :)

I worked for a client once that refused to let us build and manage databases for things that needed it. The one option in the end that we could get approved was using Microsoft SharePoint lists and CRUD'ing to them through the Javascript API.

A lot of problems have lame constraints, but having an option at all to solve them is pretty nice.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Our company is forcing us to drop slack and use teams. It’s going to be terrible. But hey it saves 600k per year. Never mind that our customer experience will become terrible as team communication fails.

Sorry if I'm ignorant, but how can slack cost 600k/year? I doubt they wouldn't give some form of deal for bigger companies. I know integrations can sometimes suck up money, but 600k is insane

That's a huge financial incentive to build an alternative.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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post #177

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I haven't used teams but if it's so bad there has to be a good open source alternative? Let's build one???

People use Teams because they're already using Microsoft office products and it is "free" in that way. Then it's entrenched and folks can't imagine doing things any other way.

We had to start using it because all of our clients demanded it. Managers/Owners don't say no to big money.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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I think it's dismissive to say that explaining something is harder isn't important. And something being harder stopping your from doing it is ubiquitous in life. It's a good skill to know how much effort something will take and weighing the risks and rewards.

Let’s try to turn this into a productive thread that adds some value here. What is it about enterprise IT that is preventing us from building a better alternative? How can we get around those hurdles?

Cronyism and nepotism is how you get "Enterprise IT"

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

Gosh, I just recently talked our management out of taking the Teams turn after Skype sunset was scheduled, in favor of another solution. I thought maybe I'm too biased against M$ due to all those coworkers' accounts being blocked for no reason without any way to reinstate - but reading through this thread is a sure confirmation I was right

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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post #159

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Our company is forcing us to drop slack and use teams. It’s going to be terrible. But hey it saves 600k per year. Never mind that our customer experience will become terrible as team communication fails.

We're all-in on Teams PLUS have management pushing for "service level objectives" on response time. It's impossible to stay on top of the stream of consciousness posts, impossible to find anything you previously answered or value you know is in there somewhere, impossible to measure response time or take ownership of... (what? a chat?). MS keeps cramming poorly thought out "AI-first" features without addressing thing…

The stream of consciousness posts is my pet peeve.

A lot of open source projects insist on using Telegram or Matrix instead of an issue tracker or forum and have the same problem. If you want to spend 90% of your time answering the same questions again and again, be my guest, but as a user I won't do more than a cursory search of chat history, and won't try to follow intermingled replies anymore. I will simply ask again and explicitly say "the chat history on this can't be followed and there's no forum, so...".

Professionally I also won't try to keep up with most chats. Someone mentions me on something and if I can't read their one message to get the context needed, I just reply with "I'm not readinf everything said in the last X days. What's the context?" and make them re-explain it.

My company even recently added AI assist tools for our chats, and I occasionally will use it to summarize everything I haven't read just to see if there's any topics I should know about. But I won't use it to try and get context for a question I've been asked.

The chat systems are basically like being in a physical room with everyone coming and going and having their own verbal conversations around you. I'll pay equally as much attention and effort ignoring it to get work done, and ask people to repeat things if they suddenly pull me into a conversation. I'll also drift out of conversations the same, but now they can't see me going back to work to take the hint its time to wrap it up.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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post #176

> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

Yup. Immediately a negative impression from me. Doesn't mean it won't sell, congrats to OP, but god I hate everything about Teams. Right now it's showing me calendar items with times that are wrong, they'll switch to the right time in a few minutes... probably. I didn't change time zones, I didn't do anything, it's just something wonky about their new calendar setup. If the time updates I'll click to open the calenda…

Ah, that's probably related to the bug I'm seeing where I've got my Teams calendar synced to my phone, but about half of the events show up an hour later or earlier.

Isn't getting this right, like, _the_ purpose of a calendar?

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

That's a great strength of the OP: instead of running away they decided to fix things, one feature at a time, and got rewarded for it!
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