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Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

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177 points foxfired | 5 comments | 07 Apr 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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_rm ◴[08 Apr 25 11:21 UTC] No.43620402[source]▶
The solution to this is just build competitors and prey on their market.

It's basically impossible for companies to get managers who can perform at the level required to not end up becoming a blunt instrument "more features now" shitshow.

Just find companies that have reached this stagnant state with deep backlogs, subscribe to their product and study it, rebuild it from scratch the right way, and stick ads on that company name as keyword.

Then when you eventually start strangling them and the MBA simpletons at the top knee jerk with cuts, poach their best staff they didn't cut, and ask them "of those they cut, who would you have kept", and reach out to them.

Basically the only way this situation gets "fixed".

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1. pavel_lishin ◴[08 Apr 25 17:11 UTC] No.43624076[source]▶
But I just want the software I use to not be bad.

I don't want to start a company, find funding money, hire developers, develop a go-to-market strategy, A/B test, pivot, pivot again, and eventually maybe release a product or maybe just get bought out.

I just want to be able to right-click and/or highlight some text in my child's school's communications app.

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2. BobaFloutist ◴[08 Apr 25 17:58 UTC] No.43624646[source]▶
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe, and if you want to be able to right-click and/or highlight some text in your child's school's communications app you must first start a company, find funding money, hire developers, develop a go-to-market strategy, A/B test, pivot, pivot again, and eventually maybe release a product or maybe just get bought out.
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3. _rm ◴[09 Apr 25 06:11 UTC] No.43629353[source]▶
You can go searching for competitors to use though.
4. _rm ◴[09 Apr 25 06:12 UTC] No.43629365[source]▶
Or go searching for the competition who've currently only got a small footprint and perhaps not yet fully fleshed out product, and use them.
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5. carlmr ◴[10 Apr 25 11:45 UTC] No.43642884{3}[source]▶
The problem is also that the competition might already be there, but you can't force your company to use it.