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?
What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?
Submitted 9 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Nunya@lemdro.id 9 months ago
0000@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The great thing is that you can simply uninstall it and leave an inspiring review.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
wow pulse used to be great. did luke sell? i remember he open sourced it in 2020 but the repo seems to be gone: github.com/klinker-apps/pulse-sms-android
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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?
xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 months ago
The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Along with the even older philosophy of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hear hear.
UFODivebomb@programming.dev 9 months ago
We’ve created an economy where that is not sustainable.
This fact is bad imo, but it’s where we are.
konst@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Uaers need a $39.99p/m subscription to Calcly Pro.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Get out of here with these facts and work on that UI redesign we’re due to ship next year.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Please tell me this is a real world example because that’s hilariously awful.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.
zaphod@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
As a former product manager, I feel seen.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Mlre than likely, if it’s a publicly traded company, it’s the shareholders and the board of directors.
EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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.
darcy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
democracy ftw!
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
vim stories when
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
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)asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 9 months ago
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.
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
you’re right. perhaps a better example would be YouTube suggesting videos by colour?
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The dude who made VSCode Stories sold it for some cash.
flameguy21@lemm.ee 9 months ago
A feature so useless that I use VS Code almost daily and had no idea this existed
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It was/is an extension so you would’ve had to explicitly search for and install it to see it.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, credit to Microsoft and VS Code for not putting bullshit like this right in your face
GreenEnigma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This meme is the most those people have ever actually contributed to society as a whole.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
GreenEnigma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Haunted by the ghost of a rice cracker
That’s just perfect imagery.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
the CEO has read in this obscure online tech blog that …
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
That banana’s name? Albert Einstein.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
That would be a better app for it
Either a ton of math tutorials or the calculator says boobs
JoShmoe@ani.social 9 months ago
Com’on guys lets all give out our Calculator handlers
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
the cursed postimage
Jallu@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Stories of 80085, thanks.
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That isn’t there so people use it. That is there so that Facebook can track where you go
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Course they only need a 1px by 1px image for that right?
Shoutout Facebook Container for Firefox, or Firefox if you’re still using a browser that’s killing the open web 😉
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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DarylDutch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No man. That is a brilliant feature that has caught out many “anti-gay” politician’s.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Wanted to prove people used those buttons, but maybe not (need to use better/unblocked terms I suppose):
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Low Stakes Conspiracies: that share button is there to get users banned. Activist admins or funded by Musk himself?
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(Yeah, they pulled a permanent Twitter Taylor Swift on Pornhub.)
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Proof 404 (2003)
lewdian69@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I didn’t believe you but can confirm this blank search within the Facebook app. Instagram, by the same parent company, has lots of results though. Guess all the puritanical boomers are on Facebook not Insta
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If you’re ever depressed about building useless software just remember - leveraged buyouts are a thing. You could buy your company for nothing by just putting massive debt in the company account and actually manage it right.
Well, in theory, in actuality this piece of accounting bullshit is reserved for vulture capitalists that will destroy the value of the company and asshats (see: Elon Musk) that will destroy the value of the company.
Capitalism destroys everything that we build!
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 months ago
At the same time capitalism has built almost everything we have.