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by polonbike 29 days ago
Congrats on the launch. One complaint: RPA this, non-RPA that, but you never explain what it means. I would write down the acronym fully once at the first mention on the landing page.
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I think their target audience is medium to large enterprises. The biggest tell tale sign of that is a missing Pricing page.

Most of these customers would already know the meaning of RPA, if they are researching companies for it. In a way, it self qualifies their leads into higher quality ones, that are more likely to convert.

Their target audience here is random HN readers though.
Thank you!! Yeah that's a good point - it's been so engrained in our brains, appreciate the feedback
RPA was a big thing just towards the tail end of 2010s, though. MS had free official tools for Windows 10 to do it. I think at some point a Japanese bank had a robotic arm set up to flip a contract binder, scan the page and stamp it page by page using RPA.
It sounds like they are automating clicking through Windows GUI applications. Pretty pathetic.