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Did Flexport just preemptively reveal Amazon’s entry into the ocean freight market and then convince every major newspaper in the world to label the service unfit for American companies?

Is Larry Page trolling PG? A day after PG publishes an essay that companies should own the .com version of their names, he renames Google to Alphabet with .xyz as the TLD.

Gangsters

It is.

I understand that you are frustrated. Thanks to blogs and forums, it is so easy to criticize someone in public. But that doesn't mean you should. Perhaps, you should have spoken to the founders first about your complaints and concerns before going public.

You are right. The thing is, you have to start somewhere. There are many decent products for structure. So we are starting with the other extreme. Give us some time.

Thanks

The Techcrunch article was beautifully written, IMO. I think it is hard to say what we really are. If you talk about parallels to existing products, some people see a blog, some a wiki, and some a website builder.

And I agree we can use more structural elements. Freedom is often limiting.

If you think you are not our audience, it means we are not talking well enough. That's it. I'm sure that with a better messaging on the home page and better examples, we can be friends :)

Thanks Aashay. Yes, we'll work on the homepage to make it clearer what we are doing.

Yeah .. need to refine that user experience. Noted.

That is one popular usecase, yes - post stuff together with friends.

You are right Nick. We need to refine our message.

A blog with less structure, or cork-board can both be used to describe a subset of utility that we offer.

Since you are front end developer, you can potentially use it to share code snippets, for one (we do syntax highlighting). If you do design as well, you can put psd and ai files and get feedback from people on the page itself (you won't even need to download the files to view them).

Some people use Padlet for agile project management too.

I have not, but someone I know has. It's called RubyMine (http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). For an individual developer account, it'll set you back by $69.