The Stripe founders said they knew they had it when a customer sent them brownies to get off the waitlist for a feature. Obviously, Stripe had built an amazing product that resonated with users but how much of that success was from a good product vs. good marketing/network effects?
I imagine there are many products out there that people have given up on even if it was able to reach PMF just because nobody knew about it.
Extensions like Coedium and co-pilot are fairly easy to install and use but I've been hearing about Zed and Cursor a lot. Is anyone actually using these products or is it just more hype.
SAAS brings the cool things people build in our insular computing community to the general user in an intuitive way, and that's celebrated. Not sure why these "GPT Wrapper" companies are getting so much hate.
I get that they need to cut a large amount of people before live interviews but hackerrank/code signal have the ability to test “real world” scenarios like debugging,sys design,using APIs,etc…
In live interviews I feel like DSA interviews make even less sense. When is a candidate ever going to have to explain/implement a niche algorithm without access to their co workers, ChatGPT, or any other help
But curious to see what everyone thinks!
I get the idea that things should be abstracted away and that's the point of a library but this feels like a little much.