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"Initially we assumed this endeavor could be housed by a single Excel file...." What?! Are you sure dev.to is a community of developers? I can understand the

"Initially we assumed this endeavor could be housed by a single Excel file...." What?! Are you sure dev.to is a community of developers? I can understand the part about character encoding (it has happen to all of us...) but seems like a lot of the issues they had could have been avoided by applying some software development skills... Still, it is very nice that you decided to give away stickers for free, being on the recipient side is a nice feeling, I remember from the time Canonical shipped free Ubuntu disks!

actionscripted 9y ago
Perhaps their top dev staff was busy doing website work or other tasks and marketing was in charge of the promotion? Wouldn't be the first time I've seen marketing charge ahead with decisions leading to problems that could've been easily averted had they stopped and pinged a developer.
bhalp1 9y ago
Founder here. Here are a couple comics that describe why it might have been the right choice to not try and software develop our way out of this one in the first place. https://xkcd.com/974/ https://xkcd.com/974/ https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/
throwaway2016a 9y ago
I have to agree with dev.to here. Never wrote an app for something a spreadsheet can easily accomplish. With that said, it sounds like they ignored some warning sines that probably should have told them to drop the spreadsheet earlier.