A general question of fellow Sumolings, with food for thought for the Canaapii team, and I write as an appreciative AppSuo customer of over 10 years:\u000a\u000aStartups rightly stress over their points of differentiation and competitive advantage. Yet, I find it offensive that Canapii would begin their About Us page with this: \u0022Canapii is run by event experts that can code, rather than by geeky engineers that are still nervous in anticipation of their first keynote pitch.\u0022\u000a\u000aAnybody else sees a dissonance between that opening statement and Canapii\u0027s coming over to *AppSumo*, to gain the support of a community of tech\u002Dfriendly early adopters?\u000a\u000aSome background, for context: I\u0027m a startup founder with advanced degrees in engineering. While I may have specialized in scientific computing in my youth, I haven\u0027t had the skill sets to architect my app. What I *have had* is the humility to recognize that my platform wouldn\u0027t exist and my business wouldn\u0027t be growing as it is if not for the valuable, continued contributions of a committed tech team.\u000a\u000aSome feedback, Canapii team: You may want to do better than make disparaging references to coders. I see your team page and worry that it\u0027s nothing but a group of \u0022suits\u0022 – corporate execs at an events firm for whom this Covid\u002Dnecessitated foray into tech may be more a *job* or project (from which they\u0027d move on easily) than a *passion* (as is the case for coders with an ownership mindset).\u000a\u000aI hope you are able to read a kind tone in these words, however critical they may be.\u000a\u000aGood luck.

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Hey there!\u000a\u000aWe really appreciate your comments and suggestions. We apologize if anything written here may have given a wrong impression, as that is definetely not our intention. Thank you for this feedback as it is essential for us to better the product and our services, both inside AppSumo and outside of it.

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I wouldn\u0027t get too worked up about it. It\u0027s just a marketing message to their target market.\u000a\u000aCanopii\u0027s target market is NOT Summolings. They want to sell to big corporations and event planners that have very deep pockets. You know this by looking at the number of account executives they are looking to hire in the near future.\u000a\u000aCanopii\u0027s interest in Summolings (in my opinion) is specifically to find extremely tech\u002Dsavy people to come in and try to break the software, find bugs, and offer up solutions (that\u0027s what we\u0027re good at 8\u002D). When they make the BIG push to the Fortune 500 crowd they will then have a bullet\u002Dproof system to sell. \u000a\u000aThey only get one chance with that market. If the software isn\u0027t bullet\u002Dproof they risk way too much in terms of a failed launch and a bad reputation for bug\u002Dware. And that lasts a long time.\u000a\u000aHonestly, I\u0027m not offended by the message at all. \u000a\u000aI do have an opinion on how they are missing the mark on the current Appsumo Campaign...but that\u0027s a whole other story  8\u002D)

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