5 months ago, Ricky snyder
Strong Idea, Poor Execution
As a tech enthusiast, I was recommended this app to stay on top of new/emerging technology and to learn more about pre-existing technologies from a community-perspective. My biggest criticism doesn’t stem from the idea — the idea behind this app is superb. The biggest complaint I have is that things populating in search results feel like they’re classified incorrectly, and therefore it makes searching for anything in-specific feel like a waste of time. Here’s an example. Salesforce & ServiceNow are major companies respectively that have many different products: Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Digital Portfolio Management, Application Portfolio Management, and many, many others. When querying “Salesforce”, then filtering only for Products to appear in the search result, I see only 1 result called Salesforce (SFDC). Which, on its own, fine — it’s okay for that to appear. But when clicking into the supposed product and looking in the about section, it’s solely describing Salesforce the company — not any specific product. This may not seem like an important issue to address and it may just be the enterprise architect in me, but the data model supporting this app seems like it could be improved. If this is a place for folks to learn more about the products on the market and the company’s in which they stem from, it would seem to me that the classification of what these things truly are should matter. Products should be specific software packages and/or technologies that a Company sells. Companies can sell many different products. Users may be interested in specific products sold by specific companies — and these generic search results make me wonder how much more impactful this could be if things were classified appropriately. And if that data model was congruent with the user interface, I think this app would knock it out id the park. Apologies for the tangent. It’s just that as an enterprise architect, I was so dang excited to see what y’all had developed. I think the potential for this app is massive, so I only share this feedback as a note to say how impactful it would be to revisit the way in which these things are classified. Also, i could just be missing something. If the data is pretty complete and rich for newer products, but fairly incomplete and immature for things that existed prior to this app, maybe I found an outlier. Or, maybe I missed a huge disclaimer that the products here are only mobile apps. I’m wondering if even just a thin layer, of governance for a review of “what” something is (and therefore how it should be classified: software, hardware, company, etc.) as a last stamp of approval before a record gets added to the app, would add solid value from the data integrity perspective.
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