Our goal is to make planning optimization easy. But planning optimization can be extremely complex. So it took us quite some time to make it easy. Timefold Solver is already a lot easier than OptaPlanner to use. And the Timefold REST APIs are even easier: if you have a vehicle routing or shift scheduling case on your hands, just send in your data and get the solution. But not all cases are easy...

What kind of use case where you trying to solve with OptaPlanner? In the past, I've seen a strong correlation between the ease of solving the problem and the availability of of a quickstart example.

For example, our tech is even used for court scheduling (in different countries), but every single one of those cases was difficult. Other cases are far more simple.

It all depends on the planning problem.

Do you remember any particular pain in your OptaPlanner experience that we can improve going forward? Around which year was this?