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kc10OP

IMO, nothing wrong with offering core functionality for various types of monitors that works for majority cases.

please think for a moment what you’ve just said

you said you could offer me a tool that does many different things, but nothing specific

but, as a potential customer i would be looking for a tool that could solve my specific problem

now think about that…

Personally speaking, if I have a problem so specific that a generalized tool can't solve it, I am going to create the solution to that problem myself.

If all my problems are so specific they require this treatment then I have too many unicorns and not enough horses.

kc10OP

Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely keep it mind as I navigate through the startup journey.

FWIW: I spent ~10 years in the monitoring / performance space, and your approach in building and marketing a generalist tool is not unreasonable. In fact, more often than not when I saw technology-specific tools, they got pigeon-holed and could not move beyond their original market.

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