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My first developer job was at some company making shit iphone apps like this, two years before this guy... but they were almost worse considering how stupid the
by jamal-kumar 5y ago
My first developer job was at some company making shit iphone apps like this, two years before this guy... but they were almost worse considering how stupid they were. People in those days would literally pay like a dollar for an app that just made a google maps search for 'ice cream' or 'liquor' because they didn't know how to use google maps. I realized pretty fast these guys were never going to make anything of actual value. One morning I woke up and decided I was sick of this enough, so instead of sending them a bunch of compiled crap apps like this, along with some data I had generated for them for some reason, (It was unreasonably large in the gigabytes) I had some fun. I wrote them some letter in the morning making it sound like I had gone crazy and born again christian at the same time, and instead of coming in to the office I sent them the stupid shit they asked me to do over skype (REALLY SLOW TRANSFER RATE like below 10kb/s) until like maybe a week later, shit still transferring, me already doing some other job... the fucking greasy guy from the marketing department showed up at my door early in the morning trying to get me to give it to him on a USB. It was pretty satisfying telling him to fuck off and to get off my property, and also never putting that on my resume.
- benn_88 5y agoThis reminds me of a part I didn't mention in the article - they initially actually set up a second company called "Shady Apps" with a separate Developer account from which they upload the "people will buy anything for 99p" apps, on the basis that they would keep the "App Start" one clean for just the better quality ones. One day Alex showed me a bunch of such apps they'd made - the "orgasm button" was one I can recall...
- jamal-kumar 5y agohaha yeah see if it made it past the review board (which didn't give a huge damn back then), then people WOULD pay 99p for it. Insane