that is one of the most unhinged landing pages i've ever seen, it looks like a vibe coded claude mess that somehow raised 100M
is no one looking at what they're releasing anymore? do people just not care? i guess they don't have to if some intern can just prompt "make cool website for our useless company" and then 100M appears at your door from eager VCs
Also it takes a few screens to figure out what is it even that they do.
The Show NexaCorp Q3 sales box, Slack box and Hex CLI box is half cut off on the right so you can't click the Codex tab, then scrolling down the "vability" which I assume is observability is cut off to the left, and the "adiness" box overlaps "Flexible by design” which I guess fair enough lol.
Worst of all they committed the cardinal sin of hijacking scrolling. Please for the love of god do not hijack scrolling.
I’m like, what the f*k. We’re busy doing this shit for a little-hundred-mil?
Do we REALLY need these little guide notebooks? Everyone has AI just, I dunno, stuff the shit in SQLite and generate a graph.
One more thing: how many f*king insights do companies need? This shit is like analysis paralysis.
Keep it simple people, don’t pay for this crap. If you need to gather all your little magical documents, maybe it’s time to consider cleaning out the attic instead.
> See, we were founded in 2019, making us a pre-AI company (ew!).
I'd wager the website is just the most obvious symptom of the deeper problem.
However, since they started pushing the whole AI thing I no longer like them.
It may speed up doing analytics, but makes everything hard to maintain, creates a ton of duplication and adds yet another layer to take care of.
I also think AI may come back to bite them in the ass. What's the point of an analytics platform is you can create dashboards from scratch directly using AI. What are they adding to the table?
They should have stuck to just making developers lives easier instead of that weird objective that is trying to make analytics accessible for everyone
likely they focus on something orthogonal, like trust and security, permissions, etc
fwiw i work at one of their 'top customers' and found their ai to be really useful for spinning up basically ephemeral dashboards for anyone to use (aka, i dont need to file a request to the data team and wait for someone to get back to me or go back and forth). i just ask it to do the thing.
Once AI can orchestrate and maintain a project with dozens of clients without slipping, they will be relegated to non-technical SMBs - many enterprises would just build their own shit. No contracts to sign. Full control. AI hosts and maintains. Great.
Then they might pivot to security (heck I would if I were in any SaaS business today).
We can make completely reproducible reporting when we need it (for e.g. our weekly business reviews), while the agent can answer all of the ad-hoc stuff that would normally be done by a small army of analysts scurrying around.
1 or 2 exceptional ICs, a clean semantic layer and agents is "all you need".
RIP to the sexiest job of the 21st century ...
1-2% headcount on data is below average for a tech company but not unbelievable either.
It is true you can get a lot further than before with "just" a clean semantic layer though!
any other tools that are also key to your stack that you wouldn't mind sharing, so others can learn from and try out?
I'm having déjà vu... I read almost the same thing word for word ~6 months ago. I think it was from an open source project.
Edit: February, but it was published in November:
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822
Actually I think I've seen the same thing three or four times this year. But yeah, actually solving the actual problems you actually have is a good idea :)
It similarly offers the combo of SQL and dataframes, built in dataviz and UI widgets, great LLM integration and essentially everything else one would want from either a notebook or a BI tool
If I may posthumously discipline the horse - when did the suffixes "-native" and "-first" merge in unholy matrimony?
Was it when B2B marketing realized that engineers equated "native" with "best/fastest/simplest solution available"? Or is it even more stupid than that?
I like your origin idea, but “cloud-native” is practically an oxymoron. Somehow taking a simple native application and perverting it to the cloud with added layers of abstraction in both the client and the server is somehow “cloud native”?
Makes downtown New York seem like “natural living”.
Hex saved Mercor $100MM. That's impressive!
For a SaaS, it's more or less just compliance-flavored magic words.
I used to make hardware products and it was very hard to sell in to bigger UK and Australian businesses until we could certify here.
If you're interested in using it, you can 1-click deploy.
Hex Raises $100M
https://hex.tech/blog/hex-new-era/