• SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.

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      Wanted to prove people used those buttons, but maybe not (need to use better/unblocked terms I suppose):

      Low Stakes Conspiracies: that share button is there to get users banned. Activist admins or funded by Musk himself?

      (Yeah, they pulled a permanent Twitter Taylor Swift on Pornhub.)

      Proof 404 (2003)

  • Nunya@lemdro.id
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    5 months ago

    Pulse SMS App for Android recently updated to include:

    New “Discover” Section: Find new offers, inspiring content, articles & more

    On a messaging app, really??? Who wants any of those features when trying to message someone?

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    5 months ago

    As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.

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      The board’s job is to hire the CEO and demand good value for shareholders. The CEO’s job is to make the big decisions to achieve that goal quickly and then usually leave before their short term thinking falls apart. The manager’s job is to enforce whatever decisions the CEO makes, even if it is stupid or cruel. And the employee’s job is to suffer so that each layer above can look good to the layer above them.

      Not to say there’s no good people in the system. My manager for most of my time there was actually a good manager who felt that his primary job was to deflect away the shit that rolled down from above so we could focus on our work, but then he got laid off along with half my coworkers.

      I do miss writing software, but I really don’t miss working in the corporate world.

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    You don’t understand! If you don’t keep adding new features, people will stop using your app!

    Who wants simple apps that just work as intended, am I right?

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      The actual problem is if you don’t add new features, there’s nothing for people to do beyond maintenance and you aren’t going to keep good developers to only stick around for that.

      So your option is new features or a new app entirely, but coming up with other good apps isn’t easy and is a huge risk.

      So if you actually did good market research and spoke to users, you could find new features to add.

      Beyond a tiny company or sole developer, it doesn’t really work.