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In typical launch fashion, I read the site but still couldn't figure out what it was. Closed it pretty fast after that.

I don't understand why people insist in not explaining what it is they're selling in a clear, simple manner.



"What is Helix?" is the 4th question in FAQ page: https://www.hlx.live/docs/faq

There's really something wrong if you have to put a question to FAQ list to tell what your product is and that question is not the first one in the list.


And even then… it really doesn’t answer what exactly ‘Helix’ is. A subscription service? An API?

How do I interact with it? What’s the value add? What’s the use case? Why would I even want this thing?


Some sell technology, some sell vision. The latter involves trusting them/submitting to their vision which would put off a lot of developers, I feel, but still create intrigue in managerial circles for them to get traction.

I can’t remember which but there was a post about this, in the context of cloud service providers, a few weeks ago, on Hackernews Top. Will add if I can find it.


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