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The thing that caught me was how bad the engineering quality was for these companies. It's laughably easy to get thousands of new customer discounts (usually $2
by shmatt 4y ago
The thing that caught me was how bad the engineering quality was for these companies. It's laughably easy to get thousands of new customer discounts (usually $20-$30 worth of food each).
Other industries seemed to have solved this issue long ago (AWS even has a cloud service if you're completely clueless)
This[1] is just one story from Reddit, but I've seen it happen with Gorillas, Getir, and some of the companies that have already shut down
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GoPuffDrivers/comments/scb23p/fraudulent_code_used_by_customers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GoPuffDrivers/comments/scb23p/fraud...
- rwmj 4y agoAs usual, the various priorities are not aligned. The programmers "moved fast and broke things" in order to get the website up quickly. The delivery companies go to their VCs and boast they had thousands of new customers sign up. The VCs can go to their backers and boast of exponential growth curves. The backers are flush with money and desperate for returns and so will fund anything that looks like a growth area. Everyone got what they wanted (for a while).
- spywaregorilla 4y agoA lot of these businesses are fine with that transaction. It's not bad engineering for sure. Business is weird when you're goal is to grow instead of make money.