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Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.
Slacking around SQL snippets, schlepping around CSVs, devs having minor inconsistencies when running a bunch of ad-hoc queries: problems for sure, but not major ones for a small company. Our ideal customer was probably a fast-growing Series B company hitting these pain points for the first time — too narrow a target to systematically find before they settle for good-enough alternatives. After the company shut down, I initially planned to open source Slight, but the reality of post-startup life (including a baby no less!)
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