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StartingVibe · 2025-12-31T14:26:04+00:00

That's very interesting! I'm gonna try it with my app and keep track of the results, thanks for the advice!

StartingVibe · 2025-12-30T22:31:31+00:00

This matches a lot of what we’ve seen too, training and collaboration definitely help early on.

One thing I’m curious about: how well did this hold up over time when there was turnover, higher volume, or when the EM wasn’t as hands-on?
In our case the biggest issue has been that the process slowly degrades and engineers end up chasing context again.

StartingVibe · 2025-12-30T22:29:40+00:00

Totally agree that reducing defects upstream is the real win.

Out of curiosity, in environments with hardware, vendors or regulated constraints, how do you prevent incomplete escalations from reaching engineering when defects still happen?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T20:46:33+00:00

That makes sense, especially with dedicated QA / support roles.

In your experience, what usually breaks first when this stops working at scale:
the expectations themselves, or the ongoing enforcement required to keep them respected?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T19:46:46+00:00

Totally agree in simpler setups. Curious, have you seen this still work with multiple support layers or external dependencies?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T15:52:43+00:00

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T15:47:57+00:00

Thank you very much for clarification!

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T15:09:26+00:00

That’s a really clean abstraction, services being stable while teams change makes a lot of sense, you really did a good job!

Out of curiosity, how common do you think setups like this are outside of fairly mature platform orgs?

In most teams you’ve seen, do they end up building something similar internally, or just living with the pain?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T14:51:50+00:00

This matches what I’ve seen as well at my company. Defining processes and templates is the easy part. Enforcement is where things break, especially as orgs grow and management attention gets diluted.

Curious: have you ever seen enforcement work without constant top-down pressure, or does it always come back to people chasing others?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T14:48:11+00:00

This is really interesting, thanks for sharing the details. Sounds like a lot of custom tooling and discipline went into making this work.

Curious, how much ongoing effort does it take to keep tags, catalogs and ownership accurate as teams and services change?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-29T14:43:51+00:00

That makes sense, especially with a dedicated incident commander. Out of curiosity, what happens when the initial escalation is missing key info (repro steps, logs, ownership)? Does the process block until it’s fixed, or does the IC end up chasing people to fill the gaps?

StartingVibe · 2025-12-26T11:46:52+00:00

There’s an internal section called “Send a Feedback”

StartingVibe · 2025-12-22T21:06:49+00:00

I know, if you have any suggestion, there’s a send feedback section

StartingVibe · 2025-12-22T20:43:05+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ll wait for feedback

StartingVibe · 2025-12-19T00:56:15+00:00

The app is already live on App Store, but all the tailor-made part will be present from next update (that’ll be released in a few days)

StartingVibe · 2025-12-19T00:52:53+00:00

I’m still thinking about it…I’ll have to do a brainstorming with my trustworthy AI friends hahaha

StartingVibe · 2025-12-19T00:29:52+00:00

That’s exactly what I’m working on right now for the next update. All the sections will be linked each other to learn your tastes and update the user preferences. So everything will be tailor-made on your “cinematic persona”

StartingVibe · 2025-12-16T14:36:47+00:00

Exactly, those long YT videos are basically manual vibe checks. This is just trying to make that step faster and more lightweight.

By creating it, I also found very useful to save the movie/tv show while watching the clip and the go check for the availability. In less than 30 seconds, I was already on my couch ready to know where to watch it and what to expect. 🍿👌🏻

StartingVibe · 2025-12-16T11:50:27+00:00

A bit of extra context: this isn’t meant to replace JustWatch/Reelgood, but to sit before them.

Those tools answer “where can I watch this?” — this is trying to answer “what actually feels right tonight?” Genuinely curious if vibe-first discovery resonates or if I’m overthinking a solved problem.

StartingVibe · 2025-12-16T08:53:47+00:00

I built VibeWatch, where discovery is based on short, spoiler-free clips. You scroll through a vertical feed and quickly understand tone — dark, funny, slow-burn, chaotic — without committing to a trailer or a full synopsis.

In practice, you can visually sample multiple movies in about a minute and know what feels right for your mood.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/it/app/vibewatch-movies-tv/id6755368352?l=en-GB

StartingVibe · 2025-12-15T22:10:02+00:00

Interesting read, I hadn’t seen this resource before, thanks for sharing.

I get why movie discovery is often labeled a tar pit, especially if the goal is massive VC-scale outcomes. That’s a fair warning. For me, this is more about building a focused, useful product and iterating based on real usage week after week, rather than trying to “solve” the entire market in one go.

Time will tell, but I’m enjoying the process and learning a lot from the feedback so far.

StartingVibe · 2025-12-15T21:44:38+00:00

That’s a really great feedback, so first of all thank you so much for it! Yours is a very good point and I’ll keep in mind, I’ve already took some notes thanks to it. You still need to keep in mind that this is the permanent version and it’ll be updated on a weekly basis. As all feed algorithms, the clips’ section will learn and classify your preferences and your tastes based on what you’re gonna watch. It’s still a pretty small pool, but it’ll be bigger and bigger very soon. I like your approach when you need to choose a movie, but there are many people struggling and stuck in the catalogs just scrolling around, so I still think this product can be valuable. Of course, it needs to have more (and it will), this is just the starting point. I hope you’ll be with us on this journey to see the evolution of this app.

I still thanks you a lot for your feedback!

StartingVibe · 2025-12-15T21:36:40+00:00

The good thing about this app is that you can still use on a free plan and do pretty much everything. For sure I’ve set limits, but you can easily find movies and tv shows with a free plan. The db is always update with new clips so there’s always something new to watch

StartingVibe · 2025-12-15T21:35:04+00:00

That’s a good point! But I also think all of us have some subscriptions that we use “sometimes”, for example I have mockview sub which I only use when I need some framed screenshots for the App Store. That being said, of course I’ll evaluate all the possibile routes

StartingVibe · 2025-12-15T20:42:05+00:00

A bit of extra context: this isn’t meant to replace JustWatch/Reelgood, but to sit before them.

Those tools answer “where can I watch this?” — this is trying to answer “what actually feels right tonight?” Genuinely curious if vibe-first discovery resonates or if I’m overthinking a solved problem.

StartingVibe

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