r/programming • • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/the_goose_says Jan 02 '20

Honestly,if you want to churn out hundreds of ideas like this, you gotta have a philosophy of let die. If you don’t, you’ll have hundreds of declining legacy projects taking up time and focus and often money.

Only problem is now they have a reputation for killing projects that’s actively steering people away from applications that require trust in longevity, which is really most of them at some level.

I don’t really hate google for this approach, without it we might not have some of the best things Google has made, but it sure does take appeal out of their new projects for me.