Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mattw2121 842 days ago
I'm no lawyer, but the statement "to productize the tooling we started building at Twitter" is troublesome to me. Do you have some protection from Twitter/X making a IP claim against this? I.e., can you prove you scrapped "the tooling we started building at Twitter" and began fresh?
2 comments
nehagetschoice 842 days ago
The idea transpired from some of the early tools at Twitter. The actual product has nothing in it that would be considered Twitter's IP afaik. A couple of other companies we spoke to use similar techniques to optimize copy testing. Good call out on the language though - we could have worded it better!
link
DistractionRect 842 days ago
> we could have worded it better!

An opportunity to dogfood your product!

link
mattw2121 842 days ago
"Good call out on the language though - we could have worded it better!"

A little ironic that this company is all about wording it better :).

link
rmbyrro 842 days ago
The fact that they recognize when it can be better is a positive sign that they will keep getting better.

Now, if they took a defensive position, trying to justify their non-ideal wording, that would be ironic.

link
smt88 842 days ago
It will also be fossilized in the HN database if they don't delete it very soon.
link