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It amazes me how bad many so called tech companies tech is. We have a cross platform GUI app at work which is just a library that wraps the native GUI (Win32/X
by mhh__ 5y ago
It amazes me how bad many so called tech companies tech is.
We have a cross platform GUI app at work which is just a library that wraps the native GUI (Win32/X11 calls). The core interface is basically maintained by one person, but these tech companies seem to struggle with teams and teams of people working on their (say) Slack desktop apps.
- frutiger 5y agoI’d be curious to know how many users your app has, if you’re comfortable sharing that information.
- lupire 5y agoAre you getting new features in that app every week?
- mhh__ 5y agoNo. It's a simple app, but it's basically not maintained by any one person. How many useful features does, say, slack add? Certainly none that I'm using. My point isn't that it should be easy, but rather than these companies are utterly directionless and obsessed with solving scaling issues they either haven't hit yet, or don't know enough about to come up with a solution for.
- strokirk 5y agoSlack adds a few dozen big features every year, and a lot of them tend to be great. Recently the ”huddle” feature has been used a lot at my workplace.