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Atlassian (broken Markdown parsers, incredibly sluggish/laggy UIs, update state issues on page without reload, and countless more) Microsoft Windows (bugs rela

Atlassian (broken Markdown parsers, incredibly sluggish/laggy UIs, update state issues on page without reload, and countless more) Microsoft Windows (bugs relating to icons "down at the clock" and tooltips of those icons, sound volume management, start menu lag, stupid search in start menu, where when you type 3 letters it finds the thing you search, but when you type 4 letters it is no longer there, worse and worse system settings dialogs, hiding everything behind 3 more dialogs to click, and many more) Salesforce Slack (buggy Markdown parser (what is it with these big companies always getting something like Markdown wrong???), laggy as hell, still no voice chat on FF, ...) All of these big companies make dysfunctional software, that they can only push down our throats, because of uninformed management levels and the sheer size of marketing budgets they spent.

doix 2y ago
I used to work for a small SaaS that _really_ cared about quality/speed/usability. Unfortunately, it doesn't really sell well. People care about features and if you're missing a feature compared to a competitor people won't pick you. Even if the competitors feature is absolute garbage and probably a net-negative because people will try to use something broken, people will still pick it. We probably got a feature complete/working within less than a week then spent months as the CEO (who was a product guy) was nitpicking. We'd routinely throw away features if we felt they didn't fit well. In the end it didn't really matter. I liked the tool and was proud of it, but it in terms of making money, it didn't do well.