Tag: Behind the Scenes
Articles tagged with Behind the Scenes
The Final Invoice and Never-Ending Requests: Scope Creep in Practice
How a simple project becomes an enterprise system. 'Just one more feature' and 47 more emails. Real stories from the trenches.
Hosting Horror Stories: Why It Matters Where Your App Runs
An app on a laptop under a desk, unlimited hosting that crashes at 100 users, a provider that went bankrupt overnight. Real stories.
Redesign from Hell: When the Client Wants Everything Changed
Approved designs that get rejected. Twelve stakeholders, twelve opinions. A teenager as design consultant. Stories from the trenches.
Security Holes We Fixed After Previous Vendors
Commented-out auth, passwords in API responses, JWT secret 'secret123'. Real security nightmares from inherited projects.
A Mobile App for $200: Stories from Fiverr
What happens when you order a mobile app for pocket change? Stories of WebView wrappers, stolen code, and tutorial watermarks.
SEO Disasters: Websites Google Can't Find
Real stories of SEO catastrophes — from invisible SPAs to buying thousands of backlinks. How not to destroy your site in Google's eyes.
Client vs. Developer: Lost in Translation
Funny and instructive stories about miscommunications between clients and developers. From 'make it pop' to 'just a small change'.
An App Without Testing: Everything That Can Go Wrong
Real stories about apps that shipped without proper testing. From wrong prices to leaked private messages and vanishing money.
A Database Full of Surprises: Migration Stories
A table with 500 columns, dates as strings in 12 formats, address fields full of phone numbers. Real database migration stories.
A Contract on One Page: Why It's a Recipe for Disaster
No-spec contracts, handshake deals, vanishing contractors. Stories about why IT projects need proper agreements.
When Design Ignores Users: A Gallery of UX Horrors
15-field registration, labyrinth navigation, forms that eat your data. Real UX horrors and what we can learn from them.
We Inherited the Code: Worst Findings in Legacy Projects
Plaintext passwords, 5000-line files, SQL injection galore. Real legacy code horrors we've actually encountered.
The Client Wanted Uber in Two Weeks: Stories from the Trenches
Unrealistic expectations are a classic in IT. Uber for 2K, Facebook in a month. Real stories and how we handle them.
The Client with a Strict NDA Whose App Turned Out to Be a Facebook Group
A real story about a client who insisted on an NDA before the first meeting. His secret project? A social network better solved by a Facebook group.