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Code Works, Business Doesn't
Webdev Programming Agile
5 months ago 300.9K views 0 shares
Code Works, Business Doesn't
The classic startup death spiral visualized in three painful steps. You've got 250 domain names because "what if we need them someday?" Then somehow you managed to ship 17 actual apps—impressive engineering, terrible focus. But the grand finale? Zero paying users. That beautiful moment when you realize your brilliant technical solutions are solving problems nobody wants to pay for. It's the perfect illustration of the engineer's fallacy: thinking that elegant code automatically translates to business success. Spoiler alert: users don't care about your perfect microservice architecture—they care about their problems being solved. And apparently, none of your 17 apps across 250 domains managed that particular trick.

When Your Toilet Needs Wi-Fi To Flush
Iot Cloud Programming Security Networking
1 year ago 424.7K views 0 shares
When Your Toilet Needs Wi-Fi To Flush
The classic tale of "I told you so" but with toilets held hostage! Some genius company decided their smart toilets should have absolutely zero fallback mechanisms—because who needs to flush when the internet's down, right? This CTO is living every developer's revenge fantasy. After being forced to implement a design they knew was flawed, they get to watch the tech director panic as people literally can't flush their toilets without WiFi. The cherry on top? Those "Skynet mode" robot vacuums. Nothing says "I designed this properly" like your cleaning appliance becoming sentient during a server outage. This is why we put manual overrides on critical infrastructure, folks—unless you enjoy explaining to executives why they need a bucket to use their $5000 toilet.