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I work in this field as I find it compelling and the challenges of finding a worthy business case that applies beyond the fantastical potentials is one I feel worth my efforts/years. But equally open to failure where such yields an advance in our learning.

Aaronson is always an entertaining voice in the industry, although his focus on AI means less than I would hope to nudge us along at times. But he was in fine form at Q2B conference in Santa Clara recently, and I'm not anywhere near close to my contributions to the industry to ignore his thoughts as valuable to the discourse. Especially when pushing back on the emotional velocity we might have at times.

It's also one of endless examples of the downsides of acquisition for users (if not the founder/team with equity, who know the game they're playing). I often think of the analogy of rich kids from dysfunctional families who buy a lot of cool stuff and don't really do much with it after their social signal moment. Been on both side of this to some degree in the industry and it's never fun to see the users let down at the end of it.

While this is part of what keeps the industry going, it would be nice to see more open source outcomes for such well designed products. But to end on a positive... well done team, hope you all go on to make awesome things again.

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Not to challenge the great point you make about CoL, but there's so much cultural distortion around home ownership that it's almost a parody of fundamental economics.

We were using Signal and Voxer together, as our specific use case requires nuance that voice is great for. We tried Loom but like Voxer, it just adds this linear playback experience that's so painful at scale.

Being able to speak in realtime, but review at a glance, is amazing. Verbz is indispensable to teams like ours in a kind of "it's so obvious you want voice and text at once" kind of way. The task allocation thing is already "hey that's cool" but seeing their roadmap, gets me excited. Of course, everyone and their dog will copy Verbz now, it's pathetic that Messenger and WhatsApp don't do this by default, so it's the "cool other stuff" they're adding that I'm curious to see. But even as a beta user I don't get shown everything so YMMV.

So the benefit for us has been using Verbz to do voice, with automagical transcription as well as source audio. The task allocated and personal notation is icing on the cake.

We're still working out what else we want or need, or how best to use this, but that really core (maybe really niche) use case for us has been amazing. It... just works. This will be a default product and feature set within six months. Easy.

I sense from your other comments that you're in trolling mode, but if you're serious on this point, remember that user data freedom is a cultural signal that the team is committed to the best user experience. We proved this at Red Hat and it's the basic battle plan for SaaS these days. Any team that show me I'm not locked in is already building trust. Strange to see people arguing the opposite.

- Fully remote startup. I'm cofounder and CPO and running between meetings. Drowning under Slack, Asana, and Voxer.

I realised in our team context, voice was a really great way to put context into async collaboration, but really annoying to have to sit and listen to the whole message in realtime. Conversely voice-to-text alone misses the context of being able to listen when I want to. I wanted both at once.

I also realised that voice is super easy to send while in transit. And text is super easy to read. Best of both worlds. And then with Verbz automatically assigning tasks just by listening to my message, that was a breakthrough moment. Likewise just taking notes for myself it's great, as I hate typing on my phone when I've got lots to express, and I hate how iOS voice memos name and store. Plus I rarely actually go back and properly manage them.

Verbz is a no-brainer. The challenge is implementing in our team in a way where it doesn't get in the way of our JIRA-as-atomic-units-of-work workflow for the wider team. Our core management team however seems to fit this model nicely.

It's easily a product that the other apps will copycat as it gets traction. But it's not jammed full of ads or leaking my data so I'm happy for now. The team is really responsive, which is the bitter sweet part of early stage products - getting to feel like your suggestions are heard, but knowing that as they grow that's no always going to be the case as they get big. In the meantime, it's an instant RIP to Voxer for us.

"We provide email support Monday through Friday. ... We also might need the read-only link to your project and the email associated with your account. To contact our team, please reach out to us directly at support@webflow.com."

I've hit up Webflow support a few times this way (as a SaaS founder I actively avoid chatbots or delayed service funnels) and have found them to be amazingly fast and super detailed in their replies. It's partly what tipped me over to be a customer. In any case, I hope you get a quick reply to your query. And it did make me smile in a "very Hackernews" way that the first reply I saw to this wonderful post was a complaint :P

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