Agreed. I often tell customers to use an off-the-shelf solution and get on with their real business. Custom software development is expensive, risky, and incurs long-term maintenance costs. I outright refuse to take on custom e-commerce sites or accounting or CRM systems at this point.
About half the time the customer will find someone else who will happily bid on writing custom code despite my suggestion. That’s one reason the legacy code problem just gets bigger every year, and a lot of it shouldn’t have been written in the first place.
About half the time the customer will find someone else who will happily bid on writing custom code despite my suggestion. That’s one reason the legacy code problem just gets bigger every year, and a lot of it shouldn’t have been written in the first place.