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For some reason I can't replay to your other comment. Weird. I build modern async web apps for a living and it's not that hard. I ran eCommerce for a medium-si
by protonfish 12y ago
For some reason I can't replay to your other comment. Weird.
I build modern async web apps for a living and it's not that hard. I ran eCommerce for a medium-size software company (as a part of my duties) for several years. If you find an ecommerce application difficult to maintain, it is probably a result of poor design.
- DanBC 12y ago> For some reason I can't replay to your other comment. Weird. HN has built in rate-limiting. Sometimes you have to wait for the reply button to show.
- Swizec 12y agoI too build modern async web apps for a living and I think anyone who says it's not hard (or at least complex) is either lying or in denial. And there's eCommerce and then there's eCommerce. Recurring weekly subscriptions with moving parts are hard. Amazon Subscribe&Save is a mess and I haven't heard of anyone who's had a good experience with that. And Amazon probably devoted much more engineering power to that problem than people at a startup can. Sometimes hardness isn't a result of poor design, but the result of things being complex. Especially if (as in a startup) your definition of "things" is changing rapidly because you're still not sure what exactly you are building.