End of the year. Management announced that the project that our team has been working in for more than 4 years, will be killed.
Shit.

oh no 🥺
feels like raising a child for years and it just gets killed for nothing

@AceDev exactly

@retoor it‘s a service which I don‘t want to disclose here. It has a backend, an ios and android app and a web app. Normal users can use it for free and companies can licence it.

It will remain operational but all development will be stopped.
So we will just keep it alive.

It‘s so sad because we had a lot of plans for improvements and new features in the roadmap.

@retoor well, yeah

@Lensflare it's not completely dead...just will stop getting new shoes and haircut

@retoor yeah the reason is that the management doesn‘t believe in future financial success.

I get it, projects need to be financially viable. That‘s the whole point of a profit oriented company.

But we devs don‘t do it for the financial success of the company. We do it because it‘s our passion. That’s what I got from the other devs, too.
So it still hurts.

@AceDev yeah, but let’s be honest: With this strategy it will just slowly die.
If our clients (the companies who licence it) would know this, they would probably just terminate the contract.
That‘s what I would do as a company.

@retoor it’s not just unethical but also illegal 😂
Obviously depends on your contract but I think most contracts are like that.

better than a stolen child I guess

@jestdotty yes, probably.

@retoor why?

Fuck.

Definitely !something one wants to hear after such long investment of time.

Hopefully the new project will be interesting / challenging, though.

@AceDev "feels like raising a child for years and it just gets killed for nothing"

soooo liberating