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Nextgridyesterday at 12:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Still has some 200 monthly users, the poor bastards. They have to download Firefox 3.6 iirc, and it only works in an 800x600 window.

Out of curiosity, what does that app do to convince people to jump through such hoops? Would you mind sending a link to it?


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sabellitoyesterday at 12:44 AM

It's a full management app for recruiting companies.

There are still 3 companies that use it (since 2008), so their employees don't have a choice really. The app does a lot, so to stop using it the companies would need to hire and migrate to 3-4 other services. I reckon SAP and the kind could do everything as well, but these companies are too small for that.

There isn't a website or anything anymore for me to show, and I haven't been involved in it for over 10 years.

mosdlyesterday at 3:13 AM

Quite common, lots of old software that is custom written lives on, be it java apps, old vb stuff, etc