Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors
How do you deal with data loss if there isn’t a perfect match between the data models? For example, if I’m looking to migrate from GSuite to Microsoft Office365 (or vice versa) and there’s not a 1:1 mapping. Or if the behavior of the same spreadsheet formula is slightly importantly different? These are complicated examples obviously and maybe you’re not tackling them yet, but I think I see (at least as an external observer with limited visibility) a lot of the internal teams really focusing on those corner cases where the data loss path and other migration challenges rather than the happy easy-to-automate piece.<p>Similarly, how do you see this service scaling beyond a boutique consultancy or outside of a handful of cases where it’s easy? If you’re successful, do you think vendors won’t do everything to make your access more difficult or cut you off completely? If you see it more as a “we force the vendors we integrate to sign a mutual agreement” kind of strategy, how do you see yourselves not becoming a gate keeper and velocity bottleneck for feature development (ie company wants to roll out feature X and now they need to involve you first so that you can write migrations to …?)<p>It’s an interesting idea so curious to hear your thoughts about the challenges.