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Finally done. I was able to talk with @pfrazee.com, as well as a handful of other folks with insight on the situation. #atmosphereconf trezy.com/blog/the-mar...

I understand the concerns, but I don't think Attie sherlocked Graze at all. While they both build feeds, they have very different target audiences and usecases.

I think Graze is well-positioned to build an Attie competitor if that's something they want to do: an agent-based feed builder with Graze's visual programming environment as the intermediate representation would be awesome.

In contrast, I don't think Attie is well-positioned to compete with Graze. Analytics, monetization, etc are features it doesn't have, and its simplified feed model means that even if it added them... Graze would be a better product for applications where you care about that stuff.

I also think there are great opportunities for interoperability here. There's been talk about being able to export feeds from Attie and run them elsewhere. I think Graze should build an importer!

The ability to rapidly prototype a feed in Attie and then if it turns out well import that into Graze and fine-tune it by using Graze's more sophisticated tools as sources/filters around the logic from attie (or eventually using Graze's graphs to rewrite that logic) would be super cool.