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Calling your company "Bending Spoons" is like calling it "Stealing Chickens" (Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending )
It's a reference to the Matrix movie
Calling your company "Bending Spoons" is like calling it "Stealing Chickens" (Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending )
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Speaking of, is there a good replacement for Meetup if you just want to organize some informal activities, like a user group or going biking?
In the Netherlands we use Erbij, ( https://erbij.app ), which is now going international. full disclosure, I'm one of the founders
If you read their Wikipedia page [1] they sound like an Italian Saint. A lot about the various awards they have gotten and other "charitable" activities. But reading the comments here, I get another impression of the company. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons
"Evernote was acquired and everyone was laid off."
"Immuni was awarded but less than 1% used it."
"Acquired some company and fired its entire team."
Literally sounds like some tech scavenger.
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> people that apply there have quite low moral/ethical ones Out of curiosity, why? It doesn’t seem like these apps are either critical nor need those developers anymore.
You're not really joining a company whose mission is to make the world a better place, or at least just create a nice product. You're joining a team of jackals trying to squeeze any money out of users that depend/love a specific product while putting these applications on minimal support. I just think that at the end of the day it's nicer if you can think you contributed to the world, or even just one user making his…
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> people that apply there have quite low moral/ethical ones Out of curiosity, why? It doesn’t seem like these apps are either critical nor need those developers anymore.
You're not really joining a company whose mission is to make the world a better place, or at least just create a nice product. You're joining a team of jackals trying to squeeze any money out of users that depend/love a specific product while putting these applications on minimal support. I just think that at the end of the day it's nicer if you can think you contributed to the world, or even just one user making his…
I’m looking at the apps in the article and see a private app impersonating NOAA, one to “create stylish, impactful content for social media,” and a series of cheap knock-offs of best-in-class apps. They deserve to exist and make money, and there is no shame in working on them. But it’s hard to argue anyone was responding to a higher calling.
Developers are expensive. It’s hard to argue for geographic premiums on top of that, or maintaining the staff required in a build-up during maintenance or run-down, when WFH has challenged the first and basic economic reality (driven home by positive real interest rates) the latter.
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Sadly most people (at least in my country) use Facebook for this.
Probably. Purely anecdotal and it may just reflect the company I keep, but Meetup seems to have dropped off my radar and that of people I know. I can easily believe that many groups paused during the pandemic and never kicked back off again; I've certainly seen that behavior with a lot of groups generally.
I feel if an app changes ownership, all users should automatically be notified by the app store.
If you read their Wikipedia page [1] they sound like an Italian Saint. A lot about the various awards they have gotten and other "charitable" activities. But reading the comments here, I get another impression of the company. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons
If you read their Wikipedia page [1] they sound like an Italian Saint. A lot about the various awards they have gotten and other "charitable" activities. But reading the comments here, I get another impression of the company. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons
Oh wow, they even acquired Evernote and fired the entire staff. I hadn't heard about that.
I was not planning to do that, and I don't wish that they force me to do that.