How fucked up is fucked up - Part 1.

What's your most frustrating moment for developing software from scratch in a start up company?

When the devs have as much clue as a rotten potatoe.

The suggested solutions smell and stinks like the rotten potatoes.

The reaction to proper solution is: I never did this before but I think you're wrong, cause this sounds like too much work. We can do this like that and later improve it.

-.-

So in the end everything is a bunch of rotten potatoes.

The smell needs to be exorcised by utilizing plasma and burning everything down.

When the code is a clusterfuck and anytime you try to improve things someone sticks their nose and fucks you over

startups are a beast of their own in this matter. people want to start coding without thinking it through and a couple years later they're faced with huge design flaws. it doesn't even have to take that long, one guy told me his company had to refactor 2 months of mobile development because they couldn't find someone that knew Vue.

I've seen problems when: picking the proper tools and languages, setups, lack of research on the userbase, glossing over possible bugs because "eh that sounds like a rare occurrence" and more. startups are hell

1) when UI designer is fired, u become designer
2) when frontend developer is fired, u become frontend dev too (it does not matter that u a already backend and DevOps)
3) analytics, finding partnerships, negotiating, SEO, advertisement campaigns... I wish to be just Dev, instead of doing all the mentioned extra tasks
4) unpaid overwork is assumed as normal. They try to persuade u to give up your weekends. Or call for a long time during weekends
5) u are asked to implement fastest possible solution to reach the market faster. And they will not sacrifice any asked feature for that.
6) uncertain desire what the client wants. Even if u planned everything, prepare for new features added at later stages. Although good planning helps... The client can be not satisfied with seeing in UI designing tools... U need to code frontend first, before it is accepted or rejected
7) working for really cheap

I've once worked for a startup that did 50-G turns all the fucking time.

First they were a "near market reach platform" then pivoted to "localized market research" in a single fucking month, then it was "brand compliance auditing", then "real time general compliance auditing" then "incident forecasting". I've left years ago, and imagine that by this point they are delivering pizzas straight to barber shops or someshit else entirely.

Startups have a serious identity crysis. Anything you design and start to make, be ready to have no time to make it into something else. Like designing a 9-seat car and in the middle of assembling one you get orders to make it into a gigantic avocado-flavoured coffee machine. But it must still seat 9 people, because they promised that to investors. And the coffee must be vegan. And design some leather cups, because they already bought the leather.

Fuck startups that do not have a fully-functioning business model and a product assembly line.

@Crost o.o