Congrats OP. also: microsoft teams is an unholy abomination
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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That's a huge financial incentive to build an alternative.
There is Mattermost which you can self host. Once you do, you will realize the DB grows REALLY fast
I poked around with Mattermost like ~8 years ago, but never anything serious. I don't know how good it is now, especially w/r/t administration, but I have to imagine that if you're concerned about $1000s -- let alone $100ks -- in annual costs, you can scale up your storage and still come out _way_ ahead. Maybe that's a naïve take?
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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In my (admittedly very limited) experience, Teams was almost free when you're already paying for microsoft 365. At least last time I had any involvement with it, the price difference between having teams in the bundle or not was negligible. It makes it cheaper than any competitor. Now in reality, I think the true cost is hidden by the frustration it causes (some?) users, but it's very hard to quantify that in a dolla…
The hidden cost is also the removal of competition. Google get more heat for browser "monopoly" when they even provide a free browser base for others to customise, and Microsoft gets almost none for incredibly overwhelmingly anti-competitive behaviour around lock-in to Office, Teams, Sharepoint, Azure.
Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams (The Verge, 25 Jun 2024) – https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185467/microsoft-teams-...
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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> Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted? I'll speak as someone who is part of the problem. As groucho Marx says, I wouldn't want to be a part of any club that will have me as a member! HN is a victim of its own popularity. Things just get diluted and more mainstreamy by people like me, who are perhaps hackers in spirit but don't have much to show for it. I work in IT at an international…
I’d take a 100 random IT folks with gardens over a single growth hacker, crypto bro, or “I created an ai bot to do (X)” ChatGPT wrapper site shill.
I'd also like some horror stories, like someone vibe-coding their way into burning a million dollars by accident and having to sell a kidney on the black market so they don't lose their house.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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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.
How are the things I mentioned not real? I didn't say that we are talking about those semantic arguments on this Hacker News thread, I'm talking about the world outside of that.
I've been here since August and I haven't seen anything that even remotely resembles
> semantic arguments about why it’s ok for ICE to bust down random doors looking for brown people to deport to the death camps
If you feel you have, I humbly suggest you go back and re-evaluate whatever it was that you read. Keep in mind that in order to qualify as such, the other party would have to agree with you that ICE's actions could be fairly described as such, in every aspect.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#326last company had slack which is way superior to share codesnippets, can some developer tell me what they do about it when they only have shity teams in their company? compared to sharing code over slack it's 10x worse I want to kms every time when in teams u paste a snippet and that shit just goes to one line instead of wrapping like the original snippet that was 3 lines in your IDE ffs
Are you putting it in a code block (three back ticks)? The only issues I've had are character limits and sometimes Teams doesn't do a good job actually putting things in your clipboard.
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.
We had to start using it because all of our clients demanded it. Managers/Owners don't say no to big money.
But then you'd be onboarded (as a guest) on their Teams environment, right? You wouldn't need to have your own to make that work. In fact, when I had the need to switch between environments I found that experience to be extremely confusing, frustrating and buggy.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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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.
It’s not about bean counting, though. As a small startup, should you really spend like $15/user/month on a chat app that you get included with your office suite? Try to explain these expenses to your investors.
Is it common for startups to provide all of their employees with Office nowadays?
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…
My moment was when the Australian Liberal Party destroyed the previous government's plan to rollout fiber to the premises to 90-odd percent of the Australian population. They stole a decade of fiber internet from me because they wanted to play politics. They rolled out new copper in some areas for goodness sake. They said they were technology agnostic, they said something better than fiber may come along, yet they ro…
I should have included this link to one of my favourite pieces of graffiti as regards the bastardised NBN rollout:
https://preview.redd.it/l0q7wkqc92z11.jpg?width=640&crop=sma...
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
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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.
Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar. I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.
That's moved to activity -> mentions, I think.