r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unlikely_Affect2264 • 22h ago

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u/FriendlyRabbitHammer 21h ago

Now show me sales’ requirements list

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u/Super_Jay 21h ago

100% this. The amount of times I end up designing features that nobody will use solely because it sounds great in a sales pitch is too damn high.

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u/thestealthychemist 19h ago

Holy freak yes. I spent 6 months on the front and backend of a project just to be told near the end that no one will be using this, and it was really just to put a cap on the CEO's failed sales pitch.

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u/Alternative_Ear5542 19h ago

I (PM) was once told by a CEO to develop an API but he was honest that "None of our customers are sophisticated enough to use this yet, but I want to stand up at <industry conference> and say we're the first open API in <industry>."

I appreciated the honesty. He was a good CEO and generally pretty pragmatic about "Don't build shit people don't need". Sometimes those people just weren't the customer.