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From my understanding, if you want to use native Claude in AWS Bedrock, it runs from an AWS datacenter. I'm guessing that's why regardless of running your own stack... they still need a footprint in all the major clouds.

Gatlinburg is not my thing... but is significantly better than Myrtle Beach.


Really? Agree to disagree. At least in MB I can bike around, get in the ocean, and pig out on seafood. It's not classy, but at least it's cheap. I would never fly there, but as a weekend trip from Charlotte, it's not terrible bang-for-buck at all. Though I'm sure nostalgia from going there frequently as a child is coloring my view.

What do you prefer about Gatlinburg?


Sorry - significantly better was overreaction from my part. My view of Myrtle beach is somewhat muddied by the reason I was there in the first place. Was in GA for a wedding, was going to go to FL, but couldn't due to a hurricane and ended up quickly shuffling to Myrtle Beach. Felt like a memory of a town. I do have a coworker who recommended me some good spots, but not sure if I will ever make it back there https://maps.app.goo.gl/EbWrjJ92qgV3vx598.

Gatlinburg is maybe the ultimate tourist trap. Was hilariously enough also around there for a wedding.

I can't really argue for either as destinations. Both of these places I don't think I would go over other available options.


Its pretty safe to assume on a trail if you hear a bell that a bike is coming up behind you.


Or from the side or oncoming and he's just behind the crowd of pedestrians ahead of you.


Yes haha - a bike coming from _somewhere_


Clickup is kinda like this (trash software btw) where it combines all these things. Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI. For example, you will be chatting with someone, need to look at ticket, you have to completely leave the context of the chat to find the ticket. Yeah you can have multiple tabs, but still cumbersome. Would rather have a chat app for chat, documentation in documentation... so on.


That's exactly how I feel Teams want's me to use it. It's just... dumb, all those "apps" that are integrated, but in reality it's just another super heavy website that you can't easily jump into/out of.


Has anyons (except 37sign) used Basecamp in a small/medium/large corp? I'm really curious how well it works


Could you elaborate on what makes Clickup "trash software", is it something specific to Clickup or your opinion around this entire "class" of all-in-one workspace?


Here are a few things off the top:

- horrible optimization

    - video calls will easily bloat 1-3gb of ram
- buggy, things that should work sometimes don't

    - e.g. sometimes you click to write... you get a spinner, wait 10 seconds
- poor ux. I have been using it for 4+ years at work, still have trouble finding things

- yeah, all things in one interface

These are opinions. People can have different. To me, its just a slow and difficult to navigate mess that doesn't know what it wants to be.


It does know: it wants to be everything -- they remind you in every ad!


ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy, in a way that technical people can infer is a reflection of their mission to literally do everything an organization needs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1s0tkz8/disappoint...

https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1rxbtla/im_so_tire...

Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?


> Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?

Apparently Lotus Notes did something like that, but I wasn’t around then so I can’t speak to the veracity of that claim.


we evaluated them in 2023, because we wanted to move off JIRA, and their name came up, and we did the initial import, and I spent some time trying to understand what's where and how, and the whole experience was lame. it was aggressively confidently pushing its own features (always be upselling!) but the basics were just not there. It's like Microsoft.

We moved to Linear, which is 2 years younger than ClickUp, but it's solid in what it offers.


> I’m shipping in hours what used to take days. Not prototypes. Real, structured, well-architected software.

> If I don’t understand what it’s doing, it doesn’t ship. That’s non-negotiable.

Holy LinkedIn


Everyone who is really into blogging about their AI use sounds exactly like this.

Hmm, I wonder why!


When even my "boomer" aged and non-tech savvy dad who has always used an iPhone notices the update is bad, I think you are in at least a little bit of trouble if you don't quickly course correct.


this looks like a rip off of another monitor that I can't quite put my finger on...


And no extra charge to have an adjustable stand! How do they make money?


By having fewer pixels, lower quality screens? Crazy what you can do when you cut corners.

This screen reminds of when I did tech support in high school and I helped a guy who bragged about his computer monitor, it was a TV running at 720p (if not lower) and a massive screen. The windows start bar was hilariously large (as were all UI elements), I had to just smile and nod until I got out of there.

Sure, your screen may be bigger but it's blurry and everything is scaled way too large.


> By having fewer pixels

I thought samdixon was referencing the Apple Pro Display XDR? If so, Apple has fewer pixels.

Apple Pro XDR: 6016 x 3384

Kuycon G32P: 6144 x 3456


> everything is scaled way too large

The HiDPI/Retina bullshit is just bullshit. I've been running a 4K 43" 4:3 display at 100% scaling since 2018. It is neither blurry nor scaled too large. It can, however, comfortably fit 10 A4 pages simultaneously. Or 4 terminals + a browser + a PDF reader.


My arithmetic nodule is having a konniption fit. Does not compute. If this is 16:9 and you mistook your aspect ratio I can breathe again. √2:1 says 1.41:1 isn't 1.33:1

10 A4 pages do not fill a 4:3 or 3:4 aspect ratio box. They don't fill a 16:9 box either but it's more plausible, the wastage is different.


My comment (or at least that quote) was specifically about someone using a 30"+ TV at 720p as their computer monitor.


No need to recoup R&D costs.


its probably a charity, no money there.


So apparently this has been around for 15 years? I would have bought this years ago, but it never showed up on any of my searches... google, reddit, producthunt, alternativeto... feel like I just shifted into another dimension where this has apparently... always existed?


The name chosen probably didn't help here. “Base” is a very generic term.


It's also the name of the database application in LibreOffice, confusingly.


And its development got really quiet for a few years, I think.


That may well be the main reason, actually.


That's why marketing/distribution/sales is very important. As a developer most of us think if we build a good product everyone will start using it, which is very wrong in 99% of the cases.


I feel the same way. I've searched for sqlite guis many times and this has never come up.


This reads like a LinkedIn post


What do they use it for?


Purchasing decisions. If Gartner doesn’t claim you’re a Leader, then a massive chunk of your addressable market is not unlockable for you. This may be fine for now, but eventually when your investors demand accelerated revenue curves (and you’re not an AI coding tool), then you’ll be talking to Gartner and praying they place you high. Full stop.

Separately, they offer consulting with their analysts. A lot of these consultants are quite knowledgeable. They also are usually there to help a leader make a purchasing decision.


> and praying they place you high.

If you remove an 'r', there's the other way you can get placed high.


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