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Hm, "professionalism", to me, is a weird criticism to levy against a product or business that is presumably shutting down due to failure or lack of funding. Is
by colemickens 8y ago
Hm, "professionalism", to me, is a weird criticism to levy against a product or business that is presumably shutting down due to failure or lack of funding. Is it common, or expected, that startups allocate funds for clean shutdowns? I assume it's just burning through cash trying to make it work, until it becomes so unavoidable that you have to shutter suddenly.
>Let that be a lesson to not rely on cloud infrastructure too much without designing your architecture to be somewhat cloud agnostic.
Yeah, but no one that matters, cares - whether it's writing blog posts or putting your entire company brand/presence/blog on Medium (which harasses all of your readers), or relying on low-margin infra startups that often amount to a thin docs/marketing layer around Docker.
Just like the same people that get hosed by their hosting/DNS providers with a history of screwing users... because they didn't think it would happen to them -- people are lazy, people think they're exceptional, and I think a bunch of people don't like learning infra and don't see it as important.
- the_duke 8y agoIf they are actually out of money, they don't have any other option than to shut it down. You can't blame anyone for that. A lot of startups wouldn't have the option to budget for an orderly shutdown. But their email doesn't say anything about being out of money, just that they are focusing on a different technology. That's why I brought it up. If you have to shut down, own up to the real reason. If not, you are screwing your users to focus on something else. I'd bet that they just can't cover the bills anymore, though.