I'm to sad to announce that
@OtterTuneAIis officially dead. Our service is shutdown and we let everyone go today (1mo notice). I can't got into details of what happened but we got screwed over by a PE Postgres company on an acquisition offer.
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Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) on X: "I'm to sad to announce that @OtterTuneAI is officially dead. Our service is shutdown and we let everyone go today (1mo notice). I can't got into details of what happened but we got screwed over by a PE Postgres company on an acquisition offer. https://t.co/uPg9JDKMlz"
We saw huge improvements for customers through ML-based tuning. OtterTune worked better in real world than in the lab. But we struggled with on-boarding and making the product sticky. There were also rumblings in the last year about whether using LLMs would better for tuning...
I also want to thank
@liam_f_walshfor being our illustrator. Liam draws everything by hand! This is way better than using genai for artwork (at least for now). If you have kids, you should check out Liam's books: liamfranciswalsh.com/books.html
Hard news. Been there. Tomorrow's a better day. Tech world understands risk. Lessons get learned, good founders retain/increase credibility. Congrats on all you achieved so far. More to come.