Re:Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor t...
by apatheticonion on Sunday May 03, 2026 @07:51PM
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They describe themselves as an "established startup" lol. It's just an industry-tailored CRM so it's a form-heavy application, nothing about it is ground breaking.
IMO if you're profitable and have been around longer than a decade, you're no longer shipping features for survival and should have bandwidth allocated to improve the product reliability and performance.
No observability/monitoring, no automated testing, no CI/CD, a 30 second - 5 minute login time, and a 20mb JavaScript bundle is a pretty poor customer and developer experience.
I spoke to the head of sales / product to understand customer retention and the factors on failed sales - it looks like our customer retention is unaffected by a slow or unreliable the product.
IMO if you're profitable and have been around longer than a decade, you're no longer shipping features for survival and should have bandwidth allocated to improve the product reliability and performance.
No observability/monitoring, no automated testing, no CI/CD, a 30 second - 5 minute login time, and a 20mb JavaScript bundle is a pretty poor customer and developer experience.
I spoke to the head of sales / product to understand customer retention and the factors on failed sales - it looks like our customer retention is unaffected by a slow or unreliable the product.