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Dev: So we need around $50-100 a month to activate and use some key services that would greatly reduce our backend complexity. Would this fit into our budget? Actually, we've never really discussed in general what sort of tech budget we have to work with...

Management: UNTIL WE HAVE SUSTAINABLE REVENUE, OUR TECH BUDGET IS 0

FullStackClown: 0? Are you serious? You can't spare a few hundred dollars TOTAL over the next 3 months until our next round of funding clears?

Management: ALSO WE ARE REALLY GOING TO NEED YOUR HELP TO FIND PRODUCT MARKET FIT FROM THE TECH SIDE

FullStackClown: Oh no... we've gotten to the classic point where they think tech is the thing that will solve their problems... abandon ship...

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  • 17
    2y
    I always think, for how much they pay us, getting picky over a couple hundred bucks for software, tooling, cloud infrastructure, whatever, is stupid. But yeah if they're looking to you for market fit, run...
  • 3
    2y
    @atheist Yes this, exactly this. Sure, I've now worked at a smaller company, but still. A couple hundred bucks is a fraction of our total salary and would, well, make our systems actually run and not constantly go down...
  • 2
    2y
    Sure save few hundred dollars and pay much more when things go down, nice!
  • 3
    2y
    If they need you to manage the business - then what is their job actually?!
  • 2
    2y
    @Oktokolo Checking my calendar and messaging me when I have a meeting
  • 2
    2y
    @fullstackclown I suggest automating that sort of labor away immediately.
  • 0
    2y
    @atheistarket fit is the purview of sales and marketing.

    Which means they are either lazy or incompetent, and want you to do their job for them.

    And if you can do *that*, then you dont even need them.

    Both are separate, full time jobs, for many reasons.
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