> So you get asked to throw something together to see if people like it. So you do. And you don't in your wildest dreams think that this piece of shit is going

> So you get asked to throw something together to see if people like it. So you do. And you don't in your wildest dreams think that this piece of shit is going to see the light of day. It's just concept. One of my previous products was a custom failover application for one of our customers. It took a year on and off, with a quick prototype to see if we were on the right track ("yep looking good!"), rewriting as proper application, sending test verisons ("yep, we received it!"), getting replies back ("yep, the new update works!"), after which we decided it done and parked the project. Then came a feature request. They wanted us to change some text in the program that was annoying one of the operators. Specifically, the text "!! PROTOTYPE VERSION - DO NOT USE !!" in the window title, and the "!!PROTOTYPE VERSION - DO NOT USE!!" text in large letters on the main window. It was also called "PROTOTYPE" in the start menu launcher, but they'd helpfully managed to rename that themselves. So yeah, they were still using - in production - the initial quick test I bashed together in two days, and some CA on our end or customer representative in the middle was either horribly confused or just faking the project management part all the time.