Behind the Scenes 2

What we learned shipping duplicate detection

It was the first thing our new hires tripped over. This is table stakes in every competing product we evaluated. Even shipping it behind a flag would let us validate the approach.…

PRPriya Chen1 min read

It was the first thing our new hires tripped over. This is table stakes in every competing product we evaluated. Even shipping it behind a flag would let us validate the approach.

Next steps

This is the difference between a nice-to-have and a daily driver. This has come up in three separate customer calls this month.

  1. Enable Slack notifications.
  2. Enable duplicate detection.
  3. Enable custom domains.
  4. Enable an audit log.

Next steps

Right now this costs us roughly two hours a week. This is the difference between a nice-to-have and a daily driver.

curl -sS https://api.example.test/v2/boards \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BULLETIN_API_KEY"

Limits

Not urgent, but it would save everyone about an hour a week. Screenshots are attached in the thread below. This has come up in three separate customer calls this month.

Common pitfalls

We have a Zapier hack doing this today and it breaks weekly. It would pay for itself in the first month.

Common pitfalls

We are working around it with a spreadsheet, which is not sustainable. Two people on the team have independently asked for this.

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