I Regret my $46k Website Redesign · mtlynch.io

This was posted on Hacker News a week or so ago, but I’ve actually read the entire article. Worth re-sharing 😅 Amazing to me how a simple project can spiral out of control 🤦‍♂️

@prologic@twtxt.net Sadly, the old site looked better than the new one. :-/ Good report, though! Reminds me of several similarities at work.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sometimes simpler is better right? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Simpler is better even most of the time, I’d say. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way -and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay. — C.A.R. Hoare

@prologic@twtxt.net OMG so much money wasted on things that he did not actually want. This is a good one to read and learn from. Need to show this to my wife, so she also learns to stick to the agreement in the future when she might get hired as a designer.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Yeap talk about scope creep and “bullshit pricing” model (which I really can’t believe!) 🤦‍♂️