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

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

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

deadbabe wrote: post #167
cactusplant7374 wrote: post #97

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They don't have the freedom to travel the world whenever they want. As I get older freedom is more important to me.

Except you’re not free, you’re bound by the constraints of how much money you have, which isn’t much. And traveling the world is a bit overrated. It’s cool to change scenery, but at the end of the day, you’re just doing the same work you always do, just in a different country. You’re just running away from the fact you have nothing worth settling down a bit for, no where to truly call home and invest in a local commu…

I like changing the scenery a lot but I disagree that it makes me a bad or immoral person. Most people do not want to leave their country. Some people do and that benefits local people through tourism and retirees. The system is working out well for developing countries. It helps them develop faster.

Do office workers do anything to help other countries develop? Or does all their effort go towards making their rich friends richer?

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

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Post by leipert »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #232

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/

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

Except for Google Drive

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

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Post by SoftTalker »

duxup wrote: post #176
karel-3d wrote: post #137

> 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…

I was once 5 hours late to a fairly important meeting because the Teams calendar was showing the time in UTC instead of my zone. Never determined why.

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

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Post by phatskat »

SoftTalker wrote: post #253
duxup wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I was once 5 hours late to a fairly important meeting because the Teams calendar was showing the time in UTC instead of my zone. Never determined why.

Whenever I schedule a meeting, Teams warns me that some attendees are in a different time zone. Except they aren’t. I’ve confirmed with coworkers and checking our settings.

And then there’s the “helpful” way teams resets the calendar view: let’s say I’m going back through calls from last week to see how long they took. In Teams, I go back a week, click the calendar item, record the time in my app, then go back to the calendar view and…I’m on this week. Neat. Intuitive.

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

leipert wrote: post #252
rahimnathwani wrote: post #232

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/

> files are all stored in Google Drive, so there's no vendor lock-in. Except for Google Drive

Sure, but the product is targeted at people who already use Google Drive.

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

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Post by phatskat »

osigurdson wrote: post #250
duxup wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This seems to be a very common response. I definitely believe it but Teams seems ok to me - can make video calls and do text chats. That is all I need it to do, really. Maybe I just haven't used Zoom enough to know what I am missing.

I think it’s less that you’re missing something Zoom does better, it’s mostly that Teams is a poor replacement for any calendar, messaging app, or video call service. It does those things “fine”, but I wouldn’t say it does any of them _well_.

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

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Post by SoftTalker »

duxup wrote: post #177
youniverse wrote: post #169

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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.

Yep. Companies sign up for O365 and then the bean-counters insist on killing any other products that can be replaced by that (if you squint hard enough) because they see it as cost savings.

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

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Post by burningChrome »

DontchaKnowit wrote: post #242
jbm wrote: post #238

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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…

I use it every single day, constantly, and it works just fine for me. Only compaint I ever had is that the search functions suck but thats common to literally anything microsoft has ever done

I would have to agree with you. I use it every day for work and besides some wonky syncing between Outlook and Teams and the search which you already pointed out, it works. More than I can say for some of the older tech we were using before Teams.

I would also not that I've never been a huge power user or rely heavily on it for anything really outside of calendar or channel conversations so for me, on a basic level it works.

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

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Post by karel-3d »

unixhero wrote: post #181
karel-3d wrote: post #137

> 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

jira and confluence are annoying but they do their job, somewhat. You don't like them but you don't hate them

Teams is a different beast

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

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

DontchaKnowit wrote: post #215
karel-3d wrote: post #137

> 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.....

I don't understand all the hate for Jira to be honest. I've used it at various companies and I think it's fine. You can absolutely customize Jira into a monstrosity that sucks to use, but that's true of many ticket systems. I think that the out of the box experience is reasonable though.
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