Doesn't matter too much. We should all just start up one of these and all get acquired, then Ticketmaster has given us all a lot of money for no benefit to them. If enough of us do it they can't afford to keep acquiring us, and there will be real competition.
Kagi is a great product if you're happy with them! Uruky is for people who want ad-free, private, and personalized search, and no AI, while stimulating the European economy. That's not everyone and that's fine!
Can anyone explain the financials involved why this brand, worth so little in market cap, but brand value definitely a lot more than that assumes it is; isn't just swallowed up like a Fitbit?
It seems to me that they went from being a device making company to a marketing company. Their marketing budget looks like it could dwarf their R&D budget. Or they got a really good deal on all of their promotional stuff.
About: Hey, I'm Marciano, a product engineer who designs and ships end-to-end. I take things from first concept and interface design all the way to working production code, no handoff in between. 7+ years of it: consumer apps, platforms, internal tools.
Some recent stuff: I built Stembuswijzer.nl, a polling station finder that went viral during the Dutch elections last year. I built Campfire.gg, a watch-together video platform. And I'm currently building Vit (joinvit.club), an all-in-one health tracking app (food logging, workouts, habits, body measurements).
I'm looking for a part-time engagement (roughly 24 hours/week) on something meaningful in health, sustainability, or community tech.
I'm at my best where design and engineering aren't separate roles, owning a feature from the Figma file to the deploy (I do admit I rather just work in code nowadays, but can still use Figma at the start). I work fast, think in systems, and care a lot about clarity, quality, and usability. If you're building something that should actually get used, let's talk :)
If "normie" means a noncorporate knowledge worker who uses the free version, yes.
For enterprise, Anthropic is crushing it. In the manufacturing sector I anecdotally hear a 2:1 ratio of Claude to ChatGPT for teams who are settling on a platform.
At my company the grassroots advocacy from devs has certainly been for Claude Code.
Unfortunately even though we have a degree or two of seperation from most federal contracts the punitive DoD blacklisting had enough of a chilling effect on our legal team to make them drag their feet on approving any contract involving Anthropic.
So I pitched OpenAI Business with Codex so we could drop our Github Copilot Business subscription before the billing change takes effect June 1st which was approved without pushback.
I felt some responsibility for finding an immediate solution to dump Copilot since I was the one who recommended adopting Copilot in the first place, ugh... Our prices would have quadrupled based on the single month Microsoft in their beneficence allowed previewing with their tool to simulate what the post-rug pull pricing would have looked like.
Codex becoming more or less a 1:1 replacement for CC made that a no brainer given our options and the exploitative value proposition of Copilot under the new pricing model (which Microsoft evidently hoped companies like us would just accept despite being a third tier option in the dev space these days).
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