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AI vs. web dev (thegrid.io)
8 points by halieu 4129 days ago
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This pops up every few weeks / months and not once have I seen anything tangible from them. They refuse to offer a 'try-before-you-buy' demo and there's no way to actually see the tech work. You have to pay for a year's subscription, with no release date for the actual product other than 'late spring', with e-commerce coming 'late 2015'.

I would have a lot more confidence in handing over my money if they'd release something that people could actually look at and determine whether it's worth the price. The pre-order price is not really that expensive, but they have over 20k pre-paid subscribers waiting for anything with no visibility of actual progress other than slick marketing.

Maybe I'm just a cynic, but this just feels like it's going to be a disappointment.

I think this sentence exemplifies what's wrong with this "glitzy Web sites for Dummies" approach:

> Just throw in videos, images, text, products and more and magically get a website that looks like it was poured over by a million-dollar design team. Once and for all, content is king.

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