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> Show me your drawbacks and I might consider you are a serious vendor.

Can’t remember any other product from any market openly showing what it can’t do, why are devtools any different?



in my original landing page for temporal i was very proud to add "what do we NOT do": https://temporaldotio-a0ktr49oc-temporal.vercel.app/#headles...

most founders refuse to admit that they're not fit for purpose for some things. yes need to promise the world to VCs but also it makes it harder for the developer to assess how much to trust you if you are in denial about TAM


> any other product from any market openly showing what it can’t do

ChatGPT, ironically enough given how many times I see people insisting that them saying “we can be dangerously wrong don’t rely on us” is some kind of marketing scheme.


To be fair, my argument has nothing to do with devtools, just that the distinction between features and benefits is pointless or is itself a marketing gimmick.

I'll only get to drawbacks/limitations once I get to documentation. And once I spend a significant amount of time researching a product. And when I don't I feel like I'm buying the marketing.


SQLite has both when to use it, and when to consider something else: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html




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