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SchemaLoadtoday at 1:46 AM3 repliesview on HN

Enterprise software is also particularly bad because many of the customers get to demand that things work the way they want. Leading to a million weird functions, toggles, configurability because some manager in charge of making a big purchase demanded that first it must do X, many of these features left with not even a single user after the original requester leaves. While consumer software the individual consumers just get what they are given, and a single product manager/team decide what's best.


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pixl97today at 2:47 AM

>many of the customers get to demand that things work the way they want

This here so much. When some group paying you millions is saying they want a feature or they will look at competitors all kinds of crap ends up in the software.

cess11today at 7:58 AM

Right, and then you also have public sector software, and transnational software generally, where the provider actually needs to cater to a plethora of rules and regulations.