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Worth paying attention to how they're handling this if you're an app developer and asking yourself some hard questions about your own app strategy: Will you app
by kevinconroy 14y ago
Worth paying attention to how they're handling this if you're an app developer and asking yourself some hard questions about your own app strategy: Will you app work after you move on to other projects? Will your users be able to continue to use it without your continued involvement or maintenance? How do you engineer your system so that it's fault tolerant enough to handle you pivoting later in your career while gracefully informing your user base?
All to often we developers are focused on the next 10 minutes, not the next 10 years. Coding for the long view is necessarily harder - just requires that you be mindful.
- JofArnold 14y agoThis is something we worry about too - which is one of the motivators originally in looking for a small exit. But as I comment elsewhere, that doesn't work so much. Fortunately the app will still work for existing users, just not the social network bits. We engineered it this way to protect customers at least to a small extent so they didn't totally waste their money.