This kind of article to me sounds like, an outside developer look at all the charts of a system and tell the developers who are working on the system: "well, this system's going to crash in a week based on the numbers on the charts". If I'm going to argue with this "expert", I would say, you saw what you can see, unfortunately, you are not the engineer see all the sh*t of how the machine works.
what I can say, this is a problem I faced every day, especially, I need to add some code in my message or I write a long updates to my team.
I don't see any reason why I make it for free or even open source. I charge my customers monthly fee is not just based on how much time I spend to build, it's about how much commitment I have to keep it working to provide my customers high quality service.
If you think give tips to a waiter/waitress after they serve you meals and drinks makes sense, and then, why I provide my service for free? My pricing mode maybe need to judge a little in the future, but free is never my option.
My guess about the project's origins may have been wrong. If so I apologize.
I'm not saying you don't deserve pay for your work, or that it's somehow wrong of you to charge money. I'm worried you'll have trouble finding paying customers because you're competing with a feature that Slack already comes with (slackbot).
I want this to work for you! If you find a way to sell this, I'll be pleasantly impressed and delighted to admit I was wrong.
Thanks for sharing with me about what you think about the pricing. I'm still collecting feedbacks about my app. My current pricing model just try to follow what Slack pricing model. After all, I'm a newbie to this platform.
FYI, you can use it for free, surprise! :-D If you don't pay the monthly bill after 14 days, you only get a reminder message at bottom of previewing message, but, no other impacts.
I understand that you're trying to follow the pricing model of other Slack Apps, but the functionality you provide isn't worth the price you're asking. Most of the Slack Apps that charge money have another platform backing up the service and the Slack App just acts as a bridge between the two platforms. Slashdraft doesn't have any extra functionality and Slack messages aren't final (you can always edit your message after sending it), as such asking for $1/usr/mo is too much.
Let's change computer software to another thing we faced in reality world – house construction. I wonder as a final user of a house if you care about the quality of the parts you don't see, like plumping system, electronic wires, also, if you care what the next plumber or mechanican would complain how hard to fix things and may charge your more money?
I wonder what's the point of this article? Any big city (Beijing, Tokyo, New York, London …) around the world has the similar issue - a lot of people come into one big city, the resources becomes a big issue, and then, the similar thing happended, maybe in a different way. So, I wonder if the author is too ignorant? Or just too sensitive?
The National Geographic Society has been documenting the various unusual conditions of the earth is what since 1888. This is not an atypical report: high quality photographs of a culture that is distinctly different from how most of its readership experiences the world.
the point of the article is to show something people may not know or may not see for themselves. I didn't know there are people living in these facility.
If I didn't read wrong, they write poduction db credential in first day local dev env instruction! WTF.
This CTO sounds to me even worse than this junior developer.