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"Why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them and now everyone is feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety," - Chris Willis, chief design officer and futurist for data platform biz Domo

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i have had domo pushed on me in a company and i did everything in my power to get us to cancel that subscription and we did. it was such a waste of money. If I was able to rebuild our entire reporting workflow in a month, imagine how fast it is to now do that with LLMs?

I don't believe LLMs make SAAS useless, but there are a subset of SAAS companies that AI truly does obviate. Among them are companies like DOMO, whose business model is best described as selling the fantasy of the "data-driven" org to leadership. They floated off the fumes of yesterday's hype. It's kind of painful to see how they're trying to inject themself into this cycle.

also what – chief design officer and futurist for DOMO?? what do they do? sorry to be a dick about it but a quote like "why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them" lacks a lot of self awareness lol.

Having used Domo in anger it is truly a terrible product with unclear edge cases and weird problems, it definitely feels its age at this point and for what it does using superset or some other oss tech would at least fail in ways you can debug.

Gosh, haven't heard of Domo in years. I remember a previous company used it but I never had anything to do with the implementation. Based on some of the other silliness that company bought into, this now makes sense.

> also what – chief design officer and futurist for DOMO??

Utah has a bit of a thing for "received knowledge", as the predominate culture tends to prime egos for prophetic wisdom. Add elitist competition with your local peers to the mix and you won't have to look far to find some...creative titles.

Is the CDOs statement to be read as "We have no moat."?

We have the infamous "Dropbox" is a weekend project, well now I'd say we are in the era of it.

And I bet I could build within 5 working day a Saas replacement of Domo.

There is no moat anymore.

Thing is, software isn't the issue when building a business - Dropbox being a great example because even now people are like "but that's just rsync-as-a-service". Software and making a business out of it are two different things.

>We have the infamous "Dropbox" is a weekend project...

Oh really? Then why is syncthing (for example), still so much harder to use than dropbox?

Because you're trying to use it yourself. Don't do that, tell Claude to write a script that does what you want.

I'm only being half-flippant here.

Would you trust your private files to a Claude-generated Dropbox/syncthing clone?

Guess how 90% of the code today is done in F500? Offshored to the lowest bidders in India/elsewhere. I trust more what claude is spouting than any code from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech_(India)

Sure, if GPT5 says "LGTM." Again, only half-kidding. Access to the source covers a multitude of sins, both real and potential. Control of the source covers the rest.

Right now I sort of trust Dropbox, but considering how much enshittification it has already undergone relative to its original mission statement, the company could do any number of things to lose that trust in a hurry. Someday they will, probably, and I won't be able to do anything about it except complain...

... except that's no longer true. Which is awesome.

Syncthing doesn't have a well-designed UX. It does what it does, but it's just a bunch of independent shares, and you have to worry about P2P and etc.

I tried it for a while but eventually left it behind because it's just not particularly helpful. You practically have to draw the rest of the owl before it can work well, and at that point you can use any circle.

atlest 3 of my friends are trying to vibe code docusign

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