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Reminds me Stripe, the payment processor, who wrote a custom internal social media network: https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-h
by recursivecaveat 6y ago
Reminds me Stripe, the payment processor, who wrote a custom internal social media network: https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home It seems many tech companies have trouble de-engineering themselves and get stuck in a loop of endlessly rewriting/migrating/redesigning because they have a massive technical staff all trying to prove their value. Google definitely suffers from this. No glory in fixing the existing chat app, so just write a new one with new problems, justifying the creation of a newer one etc. Microsoft has it even worse because they can't delete any of the old interfaces for compatability reasons, so they just pile on layers of parallel systems.
- Apocryphon 6y agoLooks like that was the product of an internal hackathon. That said, your point is still valid; companies often experience these little internal pivots. In large companies, it becomes make-work empowering a Not Invented Here culture. In smaller companies, too much obsession over tangential projects lead to misprioritized boondoggles that might potentially threaten their futures.