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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 9x39 »

People love oracles. I don't really get why yet, but I watch almost anyone outside of tech just eat up AI summaries like the ones atop Google search results or chat agents connected to an LLM.

The common denominator in the room is probably so high for a lot of tech people that it's easy to be dismissive, but this looks like giving people what they think they want - the oracle. It's impressive looking for a lot of users, and impressive for certain people to brag about connecting and setting up for a team.

I think there's a mid to bottom market desire for this stuff, even if it doesn't survive a possible future bubble pop. Call it selling shovels in a gold rush.

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

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Post by barkerja »

9x39 wrote: post #274
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #260

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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.

I think that's exactly it - the first time people experience Jira is often in heavily customized workflow-from-hell situations where the Jira Admins are far removed from the users. You can truly create some workflow nightmares and there's nothing in the app to discourage it apart from org culture.

This. Jira has dramatically improved its overall UX/UI, but it's still a tool that can be abused by the administrators.

That can be said about any tool/platform that gives near complete control to the user.

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

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Post by aners_xyz »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #270
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.

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.

Do you use it for anything other than team meetings?

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

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Post by scarface_74 »

karel-3d wrote: post #261
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???

There are many! None of them have power of Microsoft monopoly

Microsoft a monopoly in 2025??

In what?

- operating systems? The Mac has over a 20% market share in the US. I haven’t used a Windows PC for work since 2017. I’ve used Macs across 4 companies

- Office Suites? GSuite has a higher market share and the company I work for now uses it.

- Chat? Slack has 25%.

Absolutely no one in the industry is afraid of Microsoft anymore

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

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

aners_xyz wrote: post #285
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you use it for anything other than team meetings?

Meetings, chat, sharing. The core functionality basically.

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

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Post by scarface_74 »

probably_wrong wrote: post #184
youniverse wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

(Disclaimer: Teams is in my "red flag" list when evaluating a company - I hate it that much) Teams is not popular because it does something that no other app does. It is popular (IMO) because it does everything (calendar, chat, videoconference, and wiki - all of it badly) and, if you're a Windows user, you're paying for it one way or another. All that Microsoft had to do during the pandemic (which is when they unleas…

While Slack doesn’t do all of that natively. Everyone integrates with Slack. For instance if you get tagged in a comment in Google Docs you can reply to the comment in Slack. You can start a Zoom meeting from Slack and Google calendar (corporate) integrated with it.

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

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Post by szundi »

ValentinPearce wrote: post #198
duxup wrote: post #176

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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…

Last week there were so many apps added to my teams that I couldn't see the chats anymore.

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

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Post by olav »

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…

For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.
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