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One of the worst contracts I ever had was for a small company running a SaaS for divorce attorneys to help manage their cases. The main selling point was that
by planetzero 7y ago
One of the worst contracts I ever had was for a small company running a SaaS for divorce attorneys to help manage their cases.
The main selling point was that it would re-create state forms on the web and allow an attorney to fill them out, print them, and manage a case.
These forms would change many times a year and they were written using horrible PHP libraries that required every piece of the form to be drawn using coordinates. If one thing changed on the page (which happened often), all coordinates would shift and have to be re-written.
Aside from this, the owner had the first version written by developers overseas a few years earlier and I was hired as part of the 2.0 team that consisted of more inexperienced overseas developers and resulted in even more of a mess than version 1.
Some gems from the owner:
She once put on her Linkedin profile that one of her accomplishments was the ability to hire developers on a volunteer basis or well below marker value. It was taken down within a day.
I was finally let go and was told straight to my face that she was going to hire someone from India for 1/3 what she was paying me.