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What's the dumbest thing you've shipped? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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18 month project is winding down. I suspect it will have 1 use in the next 4 years we are supporting it.

The tool is basically a copy of the S3 browser, only shittier. The license for the S3 browser is only 20 bucks btw.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Years ago I joined a startup as a junior developer to work on a patented security application with SSL certificates and stuff. They had been working on it for 5 years, 10 engineers and 2 guys with PhDs, it was serious business. The thing was a prototype but it was fun to work with them. I was porting their app on Mac OS X too because the founders were sure that it would also be a success on a Mac.

Then one day I bought a HTC Desire to try this Android thing since I already knew Java. After a few tutorials, I realized that I could clone their whole app in 100 lines of code thanks to the Android API in less than a week, but it would be better, safer, and portable. I knew we were doomed. They closed the company a few months after because no one wanted their application.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

My company had kind of the opposite case. They had a fully functioning system, but the C suites of the client absolutely had to have a native iOS monitoring app, so they could monitor everything on their iPhones, while all their workers had Androids.

So they rebuilt everything for iOS, added all the useless features they wanted, got paid .... and then had like two downloads.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you didn't ship it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It was tested by some administration that loved, probably because their existing application was worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm really curious what this patented security application is if the Android API already provided it.