caminmccluskey
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Comment · 4 days ago
It's still possible, and I suspect likely, that many more problems will require new creative advances. Creative advances that may have arisen in the regular course of attempting to solve these problems that were nevertheless amenable (often in a very alien brute-force way) to combination of existing techniques
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks so much for trying it out, and for your feedback. You're right, that is a bit wonky - we should change the UX for inputs when the maximum of the range is massive, will get on that asap.
UXWizz looks great! Unfortunately we don't yet list self-hosted tools simply because our audience generally does not have the technical expertise to set these up. If that changes in the future (and I could see that happening) we'll definitely look into evaluating your platform for inclusion.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hi HN! I'm Camin, co-founder of Stackfix. We've built a B2B SaaS comparison platform to solve problems we experienced when buying software.
Evaluating SaaS tools today typically requires piecing together information from marketing pages, user reviews, and sales calls just to understand features and pricing. Existing comparison sites unfortunately don't solve this because their business models depend on incentivized reviews for vendors [1].
Our approach is different:
- We have in-house human experts who test every product using consistent, category-specific rubrics.
- For pricing, we combine vendor information, mystery shopping, and customer data to build models that reflect detailed costs, based on your usage.
We'd love feedback on two core features in particular:
- Pricing calculator: https://stackfix.com/pricing-calculator - Get estimates without talking to sales
- Side-by-side comparison: https://stackfix.com/compare - See true feature parity
We're starting with comprehensive coverage of major categories (CRM, ATS, Product Analytics etc). We're focused on depth over breadth for now. Thanks for taking a look :)
Visual demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBOGySb6zvc
Comment · 1 year ago
I really like the Twain quote.
With reference to OP; you'll notice on this site and elsewhere on the web, the best posts are very frequently of the form - "I just figured out this thing and I'm writing this blog post to share my experience while it's fresh in my mind". We could speculate on why that is but I imagine it's because they tend to be much more relatable and actually more helpful to anyone searching out how to do something for the first time. Since you'll likely directly address the questions an expert will have forgotten they ever had.
Comment · 1 year ago
I definitely share your view that the content there is lack lustre (was it ever great?) and it's certainly a high noise-to-signal platform for job searching.
My experience is that it is still an excellent place to reach prospective buyers and to do a semi-authentic style of marketing. The number of impressions a good post gets far exceeds other platforms (X, Medium etc) and, if you're pretty diligent about your connections, those impressions are generally high-quality in the sense they are in your target market.
I've seen a few post from others more successful that me, on this topic. Including Gagan Byiani (Udemy cofounder)[1]
[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaganbiyani_ive-had-over-1m-i...
Comment · 2 years ago
Stand out from a crowded job market by writing technical blog posts. This is super valuable advice I wish I'd known much earlier. Now I'm in a position to make hiring decisions, developers which can prove their mastery and passion through their writing stand head-and-shoulders above other candidates. Perhaps most importantly, through writing, they demonstrate a clarity of thought and give an insight into their personality which allows them to effectively shortcut a major part of (at least my) interview process.
Comment · 2 years ago
A reassuring take on the history of automation as a labour substitute. While I'd like to believe the fundamental message here still holds from 2015, recent advances make me a little less confident that the following continues to be true - "many of the middle-skill jobs that persist in the future will combine routine technical tasks with the set of nonroutine tasks in which workers hold comparative advantage: interpersonal interaction, flexibility, adaptability, and problem solving."
(for any put off by the length, the paper is very comprehensively referenced. The actual content is 25ish pages)
Comment · 2 years ago
I had no idea you could do this. Very helpful for theming where the colour of elements needs to be determined at runtime by the user