99% of conversations about Setup.app turn into this:
"great idea, but can we also use it to onboard other employees than just devs? 🤩" — Uhh no?
Companies either don't want a specialized tool for this or I'm talking to the wrong companies 🤷♂️
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They probably don't understand how onboarding developers to a codebase is different than onboarding regular employees who need a company email address, access to the Sharepoint, etc. Are you talking to HR? Sounds like it.
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Good guess, but sadly it's engineering managers / founders who are aware of that 😅 A lot of it also comes down to "one more tool" fatigue and good-enough process already implemented.
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I guess a good follow-up question to that would be to ask why they think other employees should be onboarded to the codebase.
Might shake out some fundamental misunderstanding about the product or discover some hidden need (e.g. "our employees don't know our own product")
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I have a theory that your buyers are only looking at "labor savings" for the people who introduce new devs to the codebase.... "how much easier it will be for me" and are ignoring the huge issue that getting new devs up to full productivity faster is the $$
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