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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.

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.

I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams.

Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.

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

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This product reminds me a bit of 'You need a wiki', which allows you to maintain your wiki in Google Drive, but still browse it easily:

https://youneedawiki.com/

As the files are all stored in Google Drive, so there's no vendor lock-in.

The documentation site is also made with their product: https://docs.youneedawiki.com/

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.

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

$x/per-user/per-month. If you have many users it quickly adds up.

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

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> There’s no such point. Well, I disagree; the people of a nation contributing to and supporting genocide are responsible in part. > This is the main reason why Russia is still not under full trade embargo and Russian citizens can still get visas. I don't think those are the main reasons: - Embargo would have a global economic impact and would have to be militarily enforced; Also, it wouldn't be enforced everywhere a…

>Well, I disagree; the people of a nation contributing to and supporting genocide are responsible in part. Why exactly do you think human right for justice doesn’t apply here? Do you include in this group everyone, even those who were not able to or actively tried to stop it? What is their responsibility exactly? If not, how do you make the distinction? Then what country are you talking about? Russia is not committin…

> Why exactly do you think human right for justice doesn’t apply here? Do you include in this group everyone, even those who were not able to or actively tried to stop it? What is their responsibility exactly? If not, how do you make the distinction?

Unfortunately, there's no way to separate accomplices from those who don't support it, but what do you expect to be done? Pretend that nothing is happening and that there's no support at all for the war and only one man, Putin, is to blame?

> Then what country are you talking about? Russia is not committing genocide in Ukraine

Well by the definition of genocide and the actions Russia is taking, it is genocide:

- Denial of Ukraine's existence as a sovereign country and as a people (a very clear admission of genocide by Putin in his speech denying the existence of Ukraine - he just happened to fail to achieve it in full).

- The destruction and stealing of cultural artifacts;

- Forcibly transferring and filtering children of Ukraine to Russia;

- Destruction of maternity hospitals, medical facilities, power grid, all with the goal to bring suffering and inflict on Ukrainians conditions of life;

These are elements of the crime of genocide[0]. You might not like that reality, but that's what's happening. It's not about the number of civilian casualties - the Nazi Germany was committing genocide before the Final Solution. I'm not even addressing war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Just speaking of Genocide.

What baffles me is that it's like you don't grasp the scale of what Russia is doing in Ukraine, where 700.000+ children were kidnapped by Russians, there are more than 10.000.000 refugees, and God only knows how many were filtered in Russia.

> I don’t understand this part. “To make a case” means to present arguments. You don’t present arguments for sanctions with saying “sanctions”.

The point I was making is that Sanctions are already an example of collective responsibility. I wasn't making a case for Sanctions, that's self evident by many laws, such as International Law, UN Charter, etc.

[0]https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

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

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Yes and: TLDR: Technology is intrinsically political. I'm grateful that HN informed me about right-to-repair, EFF, privacy, cybersecurity, and so forth. I was so upset I when the Clinton Admin promoted the Clipper chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip I can't believe we're still arguing about the issue (right to use encryption) today. That was probably the first time I realized that politics had real impac…

For anyone into this vein of criticism, I highly recommend `The Technological Society` By Jacques Ellul [0].

Among other things it makes the point (paraphrasing poorly) that politics is intrinsically technological. More precisely, he says modern politics and technology are both instances of the same underlying process of "technique". It's heavily informed my way of looking at technology, politics, and their interconnection.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

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.

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>And now that we are

Nothing of the sort is occurring here.

In the part of the HN guidelines where it says:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

A big part of the reason for that is that habitually doing things like that tends to blind one to reality.

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.

I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams. Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.

I'm not really sure what you mean, I'm also coming back to using Slack for some contracting work after a similar period of time and it seems identical to how it always was to me, definitely feels nicer to me than Teams.

Could you point out what has changed? I guess calls are called "huddles" now for some reason, that's a bit weird but doesn't really bother me.

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.

Im confused seeing all the hate for teams here. Whats so bad about it? Its a simple calendar and a messenger. Its not perfect but its not awful. Jira on ghe other hand.....

You must not use it that much.

Features that worked in mIRC in the 1990s are broken, like sending messages. Right this second if I click to reply to someone's message, I can't add a message in Japanese unless I copy-paste it in. This happens every few months. I can't tag people who have non-English names reliably.

It crashes my browser. There are weird security settings, and when you have multiple environments, it is completely unusable without having multiple browsers. Sometimes you can't log in without clearing your cache completely.

It is sheerly anti-organic, adding features no one wants.

I'm literally taking time out of my vacation to complain about it, fml.

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.

Well this is how I make tons of money, so no depression from me just acceptance... people said the same of Jira and Confluence earlier

Depends on what you compare to. Jira and Confluence at least work even if chubby and get only a bit of your attention.

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

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Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive. Disrupting the space now doesn't seem any less hard now than it was 10 years ago when slack and zoom did it. But yes, if your point is that it's hard, then indeed. It is hard. Should that stop someone? No!

Slack and Zoom both predate Teams. Teams only gained penetration through bundling with the rest of MS products on large enterprise contracts. There are already open source alternatives built for both Teams and Zoom. The issue is that open source projects don’t have salespeople that will promise compliance and integration (whether or not they can actually deliver).

> Teams only gained penetration through bundling with the rest of MS products on large enterprise contracts.

Hard disagree on the "only" modifier. Surely integration helped, but I've used Zoom, and I hate it every time I have to use it. Teams is comparatively a godsend.

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