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Dude, you win today's unluckiest developer award. Most of those were good ideas to work on, right up until they were banned. The flip side is, you've been invo

Dude, you win today's unluckiest developer award. Most of those were good ideas to work on, right up until they were banned. The flip side is, you've been involved with a lot of projects. And that's often a big advantage. Some devs stay with the same company for 5 to 10 years.

steelframe 6y ago
> Some devs stay with the same company for 5 to 10 years. Depending on how you play it, that doesn't have to be the worst thing in the world. The megacorps have an incredible diversity of roles you can try out.
- sillysaurusx 6y ago
  Absolutely! I only meant to encourage them / focus on the silver lining. It's true that there are some wonderful megacorps to work for.
mcv 6y ago
The thing I fear most here, is companies getting banned because they employ a developer who worked at another company that gets banned. I've heard that either for Apple or Google (I forgot which), any relationship at all to a banned account can get you banned. So an unlucky developer could rapidly become even more unlucky, and infect others with that 'bad luck'.
- js4ever 6y ago
  Indeed, for that reason I will never use any google products for my businesses. The risk of being destroyed overnight and without any possible appeal is just too high.
  - stjohnswarts 6y ago
    Curious do you just stick with web apps or just don't do any sort of business that requires it? I was thinking about a career shift into apps or web apps, leaning towards web actually because I do have a little bit of "full stack" experience on simple web applications/databases in the embedded sphere.
    - js4ever 6y ago
      Yes I now focus on business ideas that cannot be blocked/banned/rejected ... Since 2011 I had 4 startups that where killed by either google, apple, Facebook and YouTube. In 2016 I decided to avoid them as much as possible and never rely on third parties, ... Yes this is discarding a lot of good business ideas ... But your business then cannot be killed by a third party at any time

steelframe 6y ago

> Some devs stay with the same company for 5 to 10 years. Depending on how you play it, that doesn't have to be the worst thing in the world. The megacorps have an incredible diversity of roles you can try out.

sillysaurusx 6y ago
Absolutely! I only meant to encourage them / focus on the silver lining. It's true that there are some wonderful megacorps to work for.

mcv 6y ago

The thing I fear most here, is companies getting banned because they employ a developer who worked at another company that gets banned. I've heard that either for Apple or Google (I forgot which), any relationship at all to a banned account can get you banned. So an unlucky developer could rapidly become even more unlucky, and infect others with that 'bad luck'.

js4ever 6y ago
Indeed, for that reason I will never use any google products for my businesses. The risk of being destroyed overnight and without any possible appeal is just too high.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  Curious do you just stick with web apps or just don't do any sort of business that requires it? I was thinking about a career shift into apps or web apps, leaning towards web actually because I do have a little bit of "full stack" experience on simple web applications/databases in the embedded sphere.
  - js4ever 6y ago
    Yes I now focus on business ideas that cannot be blocked/banned/rejected ... Since 2011 I had 4 startups that where killed by either google, apple, Facebook and YouTube. In 2016 I decided to avoid them as much as possible and never rely on third parties, ... Yes this is discarding a lot of good business ideas ... But your business then cannot be killed by a third party at any time