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I rage posted this as I thought it was widely inappropriate and tone deaf to the community they are counting. As always to sides to every coin and I appreciate the response from Keith.<p>/Update<p>Hey Amir,<p>I noticed that you’re a stargazer on the apex/apex repo, which made me think you’d be interested in the serverless space, so I thought I’d reach out.!<p>I'm Keith Horwood - I'm the lead author of the API framework, Nodal, and I created stdlib, which aims to make building serverless microservices as easy as possible - without ever having to worry about scale.<p>You can build your own services or integrate with existing ones from our thousands of users. Here's an example of a markdown service we use to generate documentation on our website: http://stdlib.com/services/stdlib/markdown<p>Here's another one from someone in our community to find the name of a city based in the USA based on GPS coordinates: http://stdlib.com/services/thisdavej/gps<p>Anyway - I'd really appreciate it if you tried out our Developer Preview for a project of your own: http://stdlib.com/<p>Or you can check it out on GitHub here: https://github.com/poly/stdlib<p>I'm confident that you'll find it as the fastest, easiest way to build and manage microservices.<p>Let me know if you have any questions!<p>Best,
Keith
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Keith Horwood
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Polybit
polybit.com
Hey. Keith here.<p>So first of all, I want to apologize. This is a <i>huge</i> mistake on my part, and I take personal responsibility. I have been cold e-mailing people directly literally for months (getting people to test out your project is hard work!) and we've been very lucky to have found super positive community members and feedback.<p>That is not the case here, however. We've been growing massively since we presented at AWS re:Invent. As a solo founder, I've been torn between hiring / building product / talking to investors and I took a "shortcut" --- we hired some growth consultants to do some cold outreach for us. There was a mix up, e-mails were sent out with wrong names (etc.) at a larger scale than I'm comfortable with and I was just notified about it as of this post.<p>I'm really sorry to you and anybody that was affected by this mix up. I'm thankful you brought this to my attention. As per cold outreach, I will focus on owning the process myself as much as I can on the personal scale I'm accustomed to. If you have any suggestions as to how we can improve stdlib to increase exposure <i>without</i> cold outreach, I'm more than happy to listen.<p>If anybody reading this was affected by this e-mail, feel free to e-mail me directly - keith at polybit dot com. Please remind me in the future and I'm happy to discuss giving you some free platform usage once we're out of Developer Preview.<p>Thanks again for bringing this up --- and truly sorry for any inconvenience.
Is the only thing that was widely inappropriate and tone deaf to the community the fact that it was a email to golang folks about a nodejs project or the fact that it was just spam or something else that I'm not picking up on?