I built something similar and learned a lot about how useful a “receptionist” (advisor) is vs something that just immediately sends the user to the shop asap

The foundational product truth is you win business by saying “oh you’re car is broken, come in right now” then an actual tech or manager does the sale

Worth checking out at: https://wrenchdesk.ai

lol

this is a very pessimistic take

could be, but the universe is odd in so many different ways

it's hard to be sure

It feels more like a really optimistic take on AI. I won't say it is impossible, but I haven't seen anything that suggests AI is going to do what OpenAI and Nvidia claims it will.

And to think we're all here building b2b SaaS

Those ad impressions won't optimize themselves!

The craziest thing I learned clicking on this post is that solidworks has barely changed in the 15 years since I last used it

Shouldn't surprise you that much. Spreadsheets and word processing haven't changed in decades either.

Solidworks might be as close to a final form for CAD as you're going to get.

don't worry, the one thing they did change was adding "the cloud" called 3DEXPERIENCE which is universally hated and gets more and more intrusively jammed into each new release.

oh and they changed the price as well, it went up, and up, and up

We had a sales person try to explain how file handling in 3DExperience is done. They were presenting how magic everything is where the right version of the file is always present in Catia for modelling, Abaqus for FEA, and whereever else in the package.

OK, how do we work with our CMM and CAM software? How do we send files to clients and vendors? crickets

Not confidence inspiring.

It's the same for all mission n critical software. Catia, Unix, Matlab, Maya, on and on. This is how you build a industrial base of people with decades of experience to design all these things. If the UI changed every year how would people get truly good at their work?

Very cool model! Congrats on the work!

Thank you much for the kind words

dammit

Fun side project I made. Today I'm launching a teams package for HR / People leaders too: https://createmoji.ai/for-teams

strong +1 - developers like him are heros

Immediate negative gut reaction to this - this is a disgusting stance from the CEO of a DDoS protection company trying to gatekeep an open internet.