I agree, but many of the software companies that force you to "talk to sales" don't actually have enough info on the site for buyers to conduct a basic evaluation of product capabilities. There's a difference between making someone talk to sales in order to buy the product and making them talk to sales in order to learn anything meaningful about it. A lot of the "you're not the customer" folks in this thread seem to imagine that only the former exists.
False dichotomy. I want to talk to a human and learn about the product and have the money, though. I just don’t want to be forced to do that in order to learn a basic amount about what the product offers and how it works.
I agree but as a customer it’s still worth asking. I recently asked a salesperson if I could get access to some enterprise features on a PAYG plan because I literally couldn’t go through the procurement motions fast enough for my needs. They said yes and just had an engineer toggle some feature flags on my account.
Yeah but in those countries the parties actually get to rep themselves in the legislature. You can’t literally masquerade as a member of another party here unless you want people to think you’re a mole or a turncoat.
My experience is the opposite. I find them most valuable for helping me do things that would be extremely hard or impossible for me to figure out. To wit, I just used one to decode a pagination cursor format and write a function that takes a datetime and generates a valid cursor. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Ok, but it seems like a bit of a non-sequitur to say “ business owners aren't expected to prevent crimes against their customers” when there’s a body of law to the contrary.
It's based on Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair and deceptive practices. The vast majority of "FTC cases" you read about are Section 5 cases.
IAALBNYL it’s not theft because they’ve been abandoned and are in the new owner’s possession. If the prior owner can’t be reached and the security company which claims to own them won’t take them, they’re probably fair game.
Very cool. Have you considered whether incorporating any of the new-ish unsupervised or semi-supervised keyphrase extraction algorithms could give this a boost? Teket (graph-based) and sifrank come to mind, but I’m also wondering if AutoPhrase + an LLM could be powerful.
As a hiring manager, I’d say rule #1 is “apply for the job” regardless of what else you do. If someone reaches out to me on LinkedIn for an informational interview or whatever and they’re not in my ATS, I don’t take the call. I cannot apply for you or move you through the process without an application.