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Sometimes people claim to value “quality” of the product over engineering, but by quality they actually mean short-term profits increase, which is very valid fo

• xupybd 5y ago
  Yeah I agree, I just like people to be straight up about it. In that sense you are building a medium to low quality proof of concept to get revenue. This is the only way many products can ever get off the ground. If everyone knows the costs go way up when you attempt to scale this up that is fine. I come from a consulting background. Many companies are never willing to pay for that jump in quality. You end up stuck, with a customer that doesn't want to pay for improvements but is always complaining about the cost of new features. You have short deadlines and no scope to fix the mess. It becomes death by a thousand paper cuts. You pass by the same mess over and over never given the time to fix it. Knowing it would have paid for it's self if you had been able to do it a year ago. Sometimes this was something as simple as a database script to replace a manual task you are doing over and over. Once I created such a script but was told I had do it manually for the customer until they paid us for the script. It is truly soul crushing.