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This is my issue right now. The maintenance overhead is an increasing percentage of my work week.
I read something called "learn to say no" on HN a while ago, trying to find the same one again might be tough but that was the gist of it: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=learn+to+say+no
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I read something called "learn to say no" on HN a while ago, trying to find the same one again might be tough but that was the gist of it: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=learn+to+say+no
There is zero external pressure. I just built too much stuff that needs maintenance.
It's true that any app that lives long enough reaches an "optimum" version and then goes downhill from there. For Microsoft Word, for instance, the optimum, or "Elvis" version was "v5.1 for Mac".
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Joel Spolsky was in the business of selling versions of his software. A lot of businesses nowadays are selling subscriptions to saas software, and the sales dynamic is very different.
> the sales dynamic is very different For enterprise SaaS, QBRs and contract renewals are the point where sales shares all the new features as part of the story as to why the company should continue being a customer.