Comment by basch

3 days ago

Whisk is a good example. They put out a pretty slick image manipulation tool that had infinite potential, and decided to just dump it and work on Flow instead, which while similar in features has a much more cumbersome interface. They really dont learn what works well about something when shuttering it. Poor post mortem anaylsis. Whisk very much could have lived on as a parallel evolution of interface over their image gen stack. I know it was labs software, and should have been expected but man they love throwing away what works for what doesnt.

For a company so lost, their people talk a lot about being obsessed with feedback/data in meetups (at least 2-3 years ago.)

I guess the point is, with enough money they can afford to operate like this.