Product management Memes

What A Wild Idea

1 day ago 130.6K views 0 shares

Discord's executive team holding an emergency meeting because users are canceling their Nitro subscriptions, and the room is filled with the most galaxy-brain suggestions known to mankind: offer a discount, add more features, or—wait for it—maybe stop requiring ID verification for a chatapp. And naturally, the CEO's response to the ONE suggestion that actually makes sense? Yeet the guy out the window like he just suggested they open-source their entire codebase. Because why would you listen to reason when you could just... keep making your platform more annoying and watch the money evaporate? Truly revolutionary business strategy right there. The best part? They'd rather throw discounts at the problem or pile on MORE features nobody asked for instead of removing the friction that's literally driving people away. Chef's kiss to product management at its finest.

Dear Localization Team: I'M Sorry.

Gamedev Programming

5 days ago 184.9K views 0 shares

Product managers out here adding features like "sewer zones" and "brown crappie" to their fishing game, then casually dropping "btw we need this in 15 languages" on the localization team. Imagine being a translator trying to find the culturally appropriate equivalent of "brown crappie" in Mandarin, Arabic, or Finnish. Is it a fish? Is it... something else? The localization team is probably sitting there with their dictionaries wondering if this is a legitimate freshwater species or if the developers are just messing with them. Fun fact: brown crappie is indeed a real fish (Pomoxis nigromaculatus), but good luck explaining that context to someone translating fishing terminology at 2 PM on a Friday. The "sewer zone" probably isn't helping their confidence either. RIP to every translator who had to Google "is brown crappie a real thing" before submitting their work.

Don't Blame Your Potential Customers Guys

Gamedev Programming

8 days ago 241.7K views 0 shares

Don't Blame Your Potential Customers Guys

When your indie game flops harder than a null pointer exception, there's always that moment of self-reflection where you wonder if maybe, just maybe, you could've done something differently. But nah, it's definitely the gamers who have terrible taste. Classic Skinner meme energy right here. Game devs blaming their audience for not appreciating their masterpiece is like a developer blaming users for "holding the phone wrong" when the app crashes. Sure, your game might be a buggy mess with questionable mechanics, but clearly the problem is that gamers just don't understand true art. Nothing says "successful product launch" quite like refusing to acknowledge feedback and doubling down on your mistakes. Pro tip: If your game fails, maybe check if it's actually fun before blaming the entire gaming community. Just a thought.

Well Well Well

Security Networking

16 days ago 292.3K views 0 shares

Discord really said "let's shoot ourselves in both feet" with their username policy change. They spent years being the cool platform where you could be xXDarkLord420Xx#6969 in complete anonymity, then suddenly decided everyone needs a unique @handle like it's Twitter circa 2009. The kicker? They forced this change to "make it easier to find friends" after already demonstrating they have the data security practices of a sieve. Now they're shocked—SHOCKED—that users are leaving and revenue is tanking. Turns out people liked the anonymity. Who could've predicted that destroying your core value proposition would have consequences? Certainly not their product team, apparently.

Microsoft Took 10 Years To Add Explorer Tabs, But AI Bloat Ships Instantly

Microsoft AI Windows

20 days ago 311.8K views 1 shares

Microsoft Took 10 Years To Add Explorer Tabs, But AI Bloat Ships Instantly

Microsoft spent literally a decade ignoring basic user requests like tabs in File Explorer—a feature that's been standard in browsers since 2001—but the moment AI hype hits, they're cramming Copilot into every corner of Windows faster than you can say "nobody asked for this." It's the corporate priority paradox: useful features that users actually want? Years of deliberation. Buzzword-driven bloatware that tanks performance and adds zero value? Shipped yesterday with a mandatory update. The meme format shows Microsoft at zero days without adding AI features, like a factory worker proudly displaying their accident-free counter... except it's permanently stuck at zero because they can't stop themselves. Meanwhile, genuinely helpful quality-of-life improvements sit in the backlog gathering dust while execs chase whatever will look good in quarterly earnings calls.

State Of Software Development In 2025

AI Agile Programming Debugging

1 month ago 410.1K views 1 shares

Oh, you sweet summer child suggesting we fix existing bugs? How DARE you bring logic and reason to a product meeting! While the backlog is literally screaming for attention with 10,000 unresolved issues, management is out here chasing every shiny buzzword like it's Pokémon GO all over again. "Blockchain! AI! Web3! Metaverse!" Meanwhile, Production is on fire, users can't log in, and Karen from accounting still can't export that CSV file—but sure, let's pivot to implementing blockchain in our to-do list app because some CEO read a Medium article. The poor developer suggesting bug fixes got defenestrated faster than you can say "technical debt." Because why would we invest in boring things like stability, performance, or user satisfaction when we could slap "AI-powered" on everything and watch the investors throw money at us? Who needs a functioning product when you have a killer pitch deck, am I right?

Ability To Make Critical Decisions Quickly

Testing Agile Programming

1 month ago 278.7K views 0 shares

Ability To Make Critical Decisions Quickly

Developer presents a straightforward test case for calculating the area of a square. Management immediately pivots to TDD philosophy and decides they're actually in the circle business instead. Nothing says "agile decision-making" quite like rejecting a perfectly reasonable test case because your product suddenly doesn't align with the geometric shape you're testing. The presenter is explaining basic unit testing while the executives are having an existential crisis about whether they make software for circles or squares. The real kicker? They're so confident about this completely irrelevant distinction that they're making critical architectural decisions based on... shapes. Tomorrow they'll probably pivot to triangles after the morning standup.

In Case It Doesn't Work Out

Programming Agile

2 months ago 243.2K views 0 shares

So you're having doubts about your coding career? Don't worry, the tech industry has prepared some lovely exit routes for you. Product management is the "I still want to be in tech but without the actual coding" path. Teacher is for those who think "if I can't do it, I'll teach it" (and honestly, respect). DevRel is basically getting paid to tweet and go to conferences while pretending you still code. And then there's goose farming – the most honest option here, because at least geese are upfront about being annoying and difficult to work with, unlike your CI/CD pipeline. The real kicker? Half the senior devs you know have already mentally chosen their path. They're just waiting for the right moment or the next production incident to pull the trigger.

I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me

Gamedev Programming Frontend

2 months ago 298.2K views 0 shares

I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me

Epic Games out here playing 4D chess with their launcher. They'll throw millions at free AAA games to get you hooked on their platform, but ask them to implement a shopping cart or cloud saves? Nah, that's too expensive apparently. It's the classic startup playbook: burn investor cash on user acquisition while the actual product experience stays in beta for years. Why fix the UX when you can just buy user loyalty with free copies of GTA V? Their launcher still feels like an Electron app someone built during a weekend hackathon, but hey, at least the free games library is chef's kiss. Product managers everywhere are taking notes: features that cost dev time and improve user experience? Hard pass. Throwing money at marketing stunts that bleed cash? Real stuff right there.

The Truth Nobody Talks About

Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend

2 months ago 310.7K views 0 shares

Product managers hold endless meetings about button colors and microinteractions while developers are out here wrestling with legacy codebases held together by duct tape and prayers. Your IDE crashes every 20 minutes, the build pipeline takes longer than a feature film, and the documentation was last updated when PHP 5 was still cool. But sure, let's spend another sprint optimizing the hover animation on that CTA button. Because nothing says "developer experience" like having to restart your local environment three times before lunch while using a framework with 47 breaking changes per minor version. DX is the forgotten stepchild of software development. Everyone wants their app to feel like butter, but nobody wants to invest in tooling that doesn't make developers want to fake their own death.

Shots Fired

Frontend Webdev Gamedev Programming

2 months ago 329.4K views 0 shares

Product managers and UX designers really thought they did something by adding that tutorial button, huh? Meanwhile, 99% of users are smashing "Yeah, Skip!" faster than they can say "I'll figure it out myself" and then immediately flooding Slack with "how do I..." questions. The real kicker? Your team spent three sprints building that gorgeous interactive tutorial with tooltips, animations, and progress tracking. Nobody watches it. Ever. But somehow it's the devs' fault when users can't find the export button that's been in the same spot for two years. We've all been on both sides of this. Skip the tutorial, break something, then complain the documentation sucks. It's the circle of tech life.

Feature Updates Gone Wrong

Programming Agile Frontend Backend

2 months ago 272.8K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when your codebase is running smooth, optimized, and beautiful? Then product management decides it needs "just one more feature" and suddenly you're introducing unnecessary complexity, bloat, and technical debt. The monkey with a stick represents that shiny new feature nobody asked for, aggressively poking at your pristine, battle-tested code that was perfectly content just lying there being efficient. The lion's resigned expression? That's your code after the 47th "quick enhancement" that somehow required refactoring three modules and adding two new dependencies. Sometimes the best feature is no feature at all, but try explaining that in a sprint planning meeting.

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