{"id":26067,"date":"2016-04-26T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26067"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:00:55","slug":"bad-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/26\/bad-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CommitStrip<\/a> nails one of the ways of getting into a bad project …<\/p>\n

\"bad<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember reading an interview with Matt Mullenweg<\/a> (though can’t seem to find a reference now), where he said that this sort of thing happened with Automattic<\/a>. \u00a0People were asking them for commercial support, but they didn’t want to do it, so they started with an insane amount of like $5,000 per month and all of a sudden found themselves with a queue of people outside.<\/p>\n

And they were not alone, of course.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

CommitStrip nails one of the ways of getting into a bad project … I remember reading an interview with Matt Mullenweg (though can’t seem to find a reference now), where he said that this sort of thing happened with Automattic. \u00a0People were asking them for commercial support, but they didn’t want to do it, so … Continue reading Bad project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Bad project #work #business #humor #comics","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,60],"tags":[1968,473,2418,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-wordpress","tag-business","tag-comics","tag-humor","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26810,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/30\/gpl-matt-mullenweg-and-automattic-vs-wix\/","url_meta":{"origin":26067,"position":0},"title":"GPL : Matt Mullenweg and Automattic vs. Wix","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The General Public License (GPL) has been the source of many discussions since it was created in 1989 (with a few versions in following years) and applied to numerous Open Source Software projects. 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