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Team changes at Trigger.io

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36 pointsflippyhead17 comments

I wish this happened more often. It's so much more respectful to customers to hand off a product instead of just shutting it down when the founders find a more lucrative opportunity.

As a customer the initial reaction was "oh shit" since we had just made a big switch to Trigger a few months ago.

However, having met Amir recently, I'm fully confident that he's made the right choices here, and that he has left the development of the company in good hands.

They've built a solid product, and my gut feeling is that things will only get better.

Cheers to Amir and the Trigger team, but I don't understand why there's a big announcement about the management change. I got an email about it, which felt odd.

Some people will interpret this as instability and get scared away. I already see HN comments that suggest this is happening.

We always prefer to be open and thought it right to inform our customers of the change.

I hope that openness is interpreted as a strength.

This is really nicely done. I do hope that avoiding the inevitable product death of acqui-hires hasn't reduced your upside from the new gig too much.

I would suspect that anybody worrying about the future of trigger.io as a result would have worried far more had they found out about this any other way - and I'd imagine that as soon as continued active development in your absence is visibly happening (i.e. the next batch of features rolls out) even those people should largely calm down.

Good luck.

If you don't announce what you're doing and why, people will always assume the worst.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is an economic story-behind-the-story. I'll echo other people's thoughts that it's great that this doesn't leave the users high and dry. There has to be a reason for not doing the typical acqui-hire that is more than altruism. Perhaps the investors didn't want to sell cheap, and it was more economical for the founders to keep their stakes and move on?

Great to see them promote from within, and I wish them all the best!

Others might feel odd if you make a management change without notifying anyone.

And now their website, http://trigger.io, is also not working. Just takes forever then returns a message saying "Sorry, there has been an error".

Ouch! That's not good timing.. working on it

Edit: should be good now

The HN effect. Server overload.

This is a bummer. I just started a couple projects on the platform and was super excited about it. Even though theres the attempt to lighten the news

> "We’re delighted at being able to make this team change while having the Trigger.io product continue to improve and grow sustainably."

You still get that feeling that the 'founder spark' is gone.

This seems very strange to me, leaves me wondering if we should abandon our plans to use their service.

We've worked hard to ensure continuity and Antoine is excited to move forward, so hope you give us a chance.

Well, I love what I've seen so far ;)

Trigger is by far my favorite native app wrapper. Cheers to Antoine and hoping for a good future ;)

What is trigger.io? The blog doesn't say, and the site doesn't load for me.

native apps wrapper, but html inside it.

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