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I think we can hold multi-billion dollar venture-backed companies to a different standard than we do indie developers working on side projects.
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
I think we can hold multi-billion dollar venture-backed companies to a different standard than we do indie developers working on side projects.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoNot sure if you meant that as a nod to Ripcord. Slack has, to put it mildly, plenty of money, and gave us a 300MB bloated client. Ripcord is a payware alternative client made by a single developer. Things seem to be precisely backward.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoI meant that as a nod to the person to whom you're replying, as well as the author of the article. Of course it's possible for indie developers to build native apps — but I don't begrudge them for avoiding that route, especially if their day job doesn't involve it. I am perfectly fine with criticizing giant companies for building chat apps atop Electron.