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I was hired to design and build a loan platform from scratch. The company that hired me was a marketing agency that build WordPress and Magento sites, not scratch built platforms. but they took the bid from a large company and hired me to build it. I came in and started developing various microservices, and asked for more developers to assist. I got freelancers in other countries who usually build WordPress themes. I worked hard to keep these people building the right projects for months. then I was asked to help out with a couple of WordPress tasks for other clients. More and more of these, and finally I was called into the office and told my project was cancled by the client. They got bought out and was told that they were spending too much money on this platform before it even went anywhere. All my work got scrapped. I believe most of my code has been deleted.


I don’t know the context and details of course. But might the introduction of various microservices have impacted the cost / complexity of the project?


Dogged a bullet for being blamed for something that probably would have never left the ground anyway.

Or, missed opportunity to develop and sell the next Rocket Mortgage Platform.




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