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> I was pretty sure I knew what most of the problems were, so I got in touch with the developers, and everything got sorted out in a few days (they were already aware of some issues).

Yeah but like, I get that startups are better at listening to customers and adjusting quickly.

But I can confidently say.. if John Carmack himself legit sent me an email pointing out some problem with something I made. You bet your ass I would respond and listen to what was on his mind. Regardless of the size of my company and the amount of work on my plate :p



But he was doing that daily at Meta, and it still took 6 months for things to happen!


Something something ancient Chinese parable the only person not impressed by the General/Emperor/Mystic Sage is his wife.


Do we know that the things he wanted to fix were important enough to fix?


Yes we know that.


Yeah they were. We are writing a blog about it so everyone knows.


Yeah but at a big corp it is more than just you. Even if you fixed it are you authorized to get a build out, out of cycle? If you work on an App, can you get it through the app store approval process?


But his entire point is that's not what happened at the big company he worked at.


I bet more than half the kids working there weren’t even born when Quake came out


This is actually pretty funny :) I can verify if the percentage is really more than 50.


You are right! Respond and listen - absolutely! It will be just silly not to do that.

However, being able to implement it, having the infra to facilitate, and the internal quality of the deliverable not to incur more tech debt by being quick … this is just not as simple as size of company and work on plate.

Yes, I am not humble but we work hard :)


We took Action right away. I think many companies wouldn’t have aces as fast. Not everyone gets it




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