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?
The great thing is that you can simply uninstall it and leave an inspiring review.
wow pulse used to be great. did luke sell? i remember he open sourced it in 2020 but the repo seems to be gone: https://github.com/klinker-apps/pulse-sms-android
edit: huh looks like they got bought in oct. 2020. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/29/it-looks-like-pulse-sms-has-been-bought-by-maple-media-get-ready-for-intrusive-ads/
(there is another repo here https://github.com/jarvanh/pulse-sms-android but i’m not sure how official it is)
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?
The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.Along with the even older philosophy of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Hear hear. That’s how the tools I write work as well.
We’ve created an economy where that is not sustainable.
This fact is bad imo, but it’s where we are.
Uaers need a $39.99p/m subscription to Calcly Pro.
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.
Get out of here with these facts and work on that UI redesign we’re due to ship next year.
You mean the one that no one asked for, makes it harder to do the primary thing the app is designed to do, and all the involved developers have told management it’s a bad idea with a detailed list of why?
My favorite is menstruation calendars with friend lists. My least favorite is when my gynecologist wants to hang out only a week out of the month.
Please tell me this is a real world example because that’s hilariously awful.
God, I hope it’s not real. But it’s the only way to sell more analytics from a period app and thus an eventuality.
As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.
More than likely, if it’s a publicly traded company, it’s the shareholders and the board of directors.
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.
democracy ftw!
CEOs changed the game completely after one of them played spiderman 2.
warning: the story might change the way you think how some developers are treated across the world.
for a full documentary, see this YouTube video(in German, but you can turn on the subtitles)I don’t know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.
you’re right. perhaps a better example would be YouTube suggesting videos by colour?
I never saw that, that’s legitimately funny. I’d love to be in the room when that feature was designed, and the reaction of the developer it was handed too.
Not sure why? Just because you don’t use or understand a feature, it does not mean nobody else wants it? Or do you have more insight into that?
I don’t. but adding a “feature”(I call it bloat) that doesn’t even work properly instead of, say, making search better might be a more sensible thing.
but as a commentor suspects, they might’ve added this because of black history month
The dude who made VSCode Stories sold it for some cash.
A feature so useless that I use VS Code almost daily and had no idea this existed
It was/is an extension so you would’ve had to explicitly search for and install it to see it.
I mean, credit to Microsoft and VS Code for not putting bullshit like this right in your face
I agree - I’m much happier they pinned it to the Taskbar.
the bare minimum
the CEO has read in this obscure online tech blog that …
12*2 = 24 and today I went to the store to buy some bananas but the all the bananas were too ripe #banan #banana #bananas #banani
That banana’s name? Albert Einstein.
That would be a better app for it
Either a ton of math tutorials or the calculator says boobs
This meme is the most those people have ever actually contributed to society as a whole.
What are you talking about? David kicked kinda good while having hair, and Victoria was in a band called the Spice Girls despite being a set square haunted by the ghost of a rice cracker.
Haunted by the ghost of a rice cracker
That’s just perfect imagery.
vim stories when
We already have tinder like for vscode: https://github.com/benawad/vsinder
Now we need github for lesbians.
This is how smart shuffle was born on spotify. No one wants that useless shit.
Stories of 80085, thanks.
