It was the same page, both on old.

This could not be more wrong. Features do, because telling a user they can do X comes with a standing promise that it works, the results are correct, the ui is accessible, the feature cleanly interacts with all other features in the system (both now and in the future), corner cases are worked out, etc. And that burden is where prod+eng spend time.

It is the definition of entitlement, because what you are claiming is "good practices" is actually "ongoing labor and active management."

And, again, contravenes the license you agreed to. If you don't like that, you should execute a contract that does offer the support you want.

Open source is fundamentally a gift culture from the authors: here's a thing. You can use it for free; it may or may not meet your needs; but I do not owe you anything either way.

In retrospect, I should have not spent 3 weeks trying to get their incompetent software to work and just gone straight to phone calls. And at least in my case, the support agents seemed broadly unfamiliar, but seemed to have access to higher-priority internal case submission which did finally get to someone who could fix my issue.

Do not discount complete, total, utter, profound fucking incompetence as the driving reason behind this.

Getting the business verification was an astounding shitshow. With a registered C corp and everything, massively unclear instructions, UI nestled in a partner site with tons of dead ends. And then even after all the docs, it took another week because -- in an action that nobody could possibly have ever foreseen -- we had two different microsoft accounts due to a cofounder buying ONE LICENSE of O365 for excel and doing domain verification because it suggested it.

ZoomInfo is the most aggressive about this.

re apollo: inbox scraping is what they're describing here [1]

> Apollo does leverage its large network of over 2 million contributors to improve the scope and accuracy of its database of business contact information and run verification checks that result in a better user experience for its entire customer base. Most of the data we collect from our Apollo users simply forms part of our verification system to check and confirm existing information in the Apollo database.

[1] https://knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/20727684184589...

I was looking for a phone. Lots of sellers will list things as brand new which should imply new in box (unopened packaging). After you carefully read the listing, they actually mean open box which is far more variable.

Ebay does not care at all. It makes the search basically useless.

TAM: How big is the market for high speed internet that can pay $1200+/year and isn't already well-served by comcast/at&t/etc? And of course, this is all with finite spectrum too. So you can't serve the major cities.

No doubt there exist buyers. But rural Montana doesn't have that many households. Add that 5 year replacement cycle and Musk's Trump alignment that has Europe building their own for security reasons.

Still better than google, but the story here is not great.

That said, I bet there's millions of parents with at least one pic of a naked kid.

My bet is it's quasi-random, but if you get "lucky", nothing short of a extremely senior exec can reverse that decision. So probably we need to behave as if these accounts can just get yanked on a moment's notice at random.

Fastmail is great, btw.

For example, Oracle sell Opera. Opera manages hotels, both individual and chains. And integrates with their amusement park management software.

People complain about them, but software like that is much closer to an sdk than a finished product. It is generally customized for each buyer for their needs. And the quality of the customization is more on the buyer than on Oracle.

Oracle have a giant suite of these products for POS, guest experiences, amusement parks, hospitality, marketing (b2b and b2c), etc. And companies buy from Oracle because they're not good at making software and because you do leverage some economies of scale.