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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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> 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 many! None of them have power of Microsoft monopoly

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

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There's limited space on the front page, and the topic of AI is so prevalent, it occupies a lot, every day. Right now 10 out of 30 stories on the front page are about AI and LLMs.

Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it. The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. It's heady times, anyway, that's for sure.

> The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle.

Speaking personally, I flag the political posts and not the AI posts because the political posts always turn into flame wars. AI posts do not, so I leave them be (even though I don't personally like them).

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

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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?

Microsoft recently claimed 30% of their code was AI written. Maybe this is what you get when your systems are non-deterministic

Having interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.

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

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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?

Yes my phone teams app, the outlook app, and Teams at times all regularly disagree about my calendar.

It's amazing as outlook used to be consistent, but now that its calendar is tied to teams too... it has inherited the suck.

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

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Microsoft recently claimed 30% of their code was AI written. Maybe this is what you get when your systems are non-deterministic

Having interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.

Might be time for me to apply ...

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

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Microsoft recently claimed 30% of their code was AI written. Maybe this is what you get when your systems are non-deterministic

Having interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.

I try to explain to people how consistent under-market salaries and a combative work environment has thoroughly brain drained Microsoft. It's really hard to turn that around.

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/

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

There is nothing in google drive that has a lockin. You can move files anywhere anytime - local disk, dropbox, S3 etc.

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

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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.

>Then it's entrenched and folks can't imagine doing things any other way. It basically works the same as every competitor, I'm not really sure why you'd need to do things 'any other way'.

I can imagine my calendar working / not dealing with Teams issues. A chat interface that is better.

Granted plenty of office drones can't imagine / use much else at this point.

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 never really understand allthe hating on Teams around here. I use it at work for team meetings, often with people in multiple timezones, on desktop and mobile, and it just works. Its not a stellar experience, but it does just quietly get the job done. The whole, largish company runs on it.
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