Businesses can remain irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.

My life has mostly been making that as not true as possible :)

How are these substitutes? Mimir is a time series database.

edit: I understood virtual machine :)

So is Victoria metrics?

Why are they irrelevant? You do not say anything.

Because the challenge is in the space between apps, not in the apps themselves.

I care not to. I hope Anthropic and OAI keep burning money on stuff that's DOA.

I know there are employees of those firms here that would love to know. But nah lmao.

You don't want to ship every feature every user wants, for various reasons that I assume are obvious. Instead make it extensible.

users didnt ask for slow apis either but there they are. I am speaking for the user here and sharing their frustration. Allowing UI modification to fit the user needs should be a default now. The APIs already act as a gaurdrail on what's possible

Configurability in moderation is fine, but go too far and users can hurt each other. JIRA is famous for this: managers customize the life out of it at others' expense.

hence the sharability and subscription. other users need to explicitly subscribe to the page boosters. Else they continue with what they have.

Their shoes are great for pivoting!

Agfa: now there's a name you don't see any more.

There were so many companies in that sector back in the eighties and nineties. It seemed like every conglomerate had a division making printers.

Indeed. I once had a Star dot matrix printer. Amazingly they still make printers, among other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Micronics

Calendar apps have been commoditized for about 15 years now but they keep growing!

Remember when calendly went out of business?

The real downside to Google's solution is that you have to use Google Meet. Depending on your opinion of Meet, this is either no big deal or a total deal breaker.

I always felt it was a matter of time before Google took notice.

It has always been odd to me they didn’t have this functionality years ago. It’s been requested for a long long time

But you weren't a journalist trying to earn a living.

"Who's here from Hacker News??"

Let security companies drink from the firehose. Companies can pay for it and subsidize end users through Github etc. Everybody wins.