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Accidental Enterprise Adoption

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Accidental Enterprise Adoption

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You built a janky script to scrape job listings from five different sites because manually copying them into a spreadsheet was killing your soul. You threw it on GitHub thinking maybe three people would fork it. Fast forward six months and somehow Fortune 500 companies are using it in production, filing bug reports, and asking about your roadmap.

Now you're stuck maintaining what was supposed to be a weekend hack while enterprise architects are scheduling calls to discuss "strategic alignment" and "long-term support commitments." The code still has a function called doTheThingLol() and you're too afraid to refactor it because 10,000 companies might break.

Welcome to open source success: where your side project becomes your second job, except this one doesn't pay.

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