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> they proceeded to buy a domain for the top product name we were considering (canitake.com) within the first day I understand this may be a meme, but did you

• nonplus 5y ago
  Personally buying ip for a project you just started working on as someone expected to be a contributor? Yeah I'm serious (That I take that as a flag now). There were accounts and avenues to buy a domain when ready for that. It showed they couldn't communicate well, couldn't work in stealth mode, couldn't focus on building/proving out the mvp. Other factors are just hindsight/observing them the decade after. Two of those factors might be. 1. Repeatedly quitting contracts (if it's not a good fit fine, if it's never a good fit maybe you're missing skills to complete a project). 2. Comments/behaviors that illustrated they would have been a poor manager if we scaled/inability to be wrong. For me, other developers and contributors have been one of the most important factors for success/completing projects/keeping clients (in the contracting space). So I consider this an important lesson I was fortunate to learn early. I don't know who I would be working with now if I had failed to keep great talent around me (or for that matter, what skills I would not have developed).