Comment by nlh | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nlh | Hacker News Reader

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I experienced such a fascinating wave of emotions reading this link and then this thread. Let me share so others' can compare:

"Ha! This is funny. It's poking fun at all these sites that try to reinvent a productivity tool. Wow...yup...they nailed it...yeah this looks hilariously over-complex. Ok, good parody!"

...goes to HN comments...

First comment...joke about the joke. Ha, funny's!

Second comment...yup people laughing at the joke...

10th comment...wait...um...someone said there was a different landing page. Ok, that's weird, this one seems less like satire.

15th comment...wait wait...I think this might be...a real product?

...Reads Medium post...goes back to HN comments....re-reads landing page.

"Ok..wait. This is actually a real product. They just spent 5 minutes making me think they were mocking other products with their fake over-complex screens...but....this...is....real?"

And now I just posted this. I think it's time for Thanksgiving vacation to start.

The Twitter is really something

> First version of Whiteboard is here. So far you can only create Tree component to see hierarchies. Well, we had to start with something and will add more components based on your feedback.

https://twitter.com/fibery_io/status/1198999705822416897?s=1...

They didn't just start shouting out into the world about their features and efforts.

They didn't just sugar-coat that self-promotion with forced jokes (looking at you, Slack).

They first designed their voice — subtly self-deprecating, but from a place of struggling to one's best, without forced jokes (even though it's totally intentionally funny).

This is brilliant.

Thanks! This is the most inspiring comment for a long time for us.

I've done something similar with my "yet another dashboard" project [1]. I'm developing it in public from day 1.

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/

This can't be real, can it?

> So. The only thing that holds Fibery 1.0 release is slow accounts registration. Currently we can handle 2-3 accounts creation per minute...

> Not really. We also setup the new cluster for every account. Manually.

https://twitter.com/fibery_io/status/1197162343882543104

Had you seen the address bar, you would've realized you weren't at the domain's root path, and maybe then it would've clicked that this was a satirized version of the homepage.

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