HN Business users: What are your daily pain points from a technology standpoint?

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by pcharles • 15 years ago

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What type of recurring issues do you face at work that limit your ability to be productive or even get the job done?

vipivip• 15 years ago

Relying on offshore developers to fix bugs during critical moments.

AlexLa• 15 years ago

I'm thinking of a platform to build a reliable offshore dev teams. Are those offshore developers freelancers or it's a team that work only on your (or maybe one or two more clients') projects?

katherinehague2• 15 years ago

Too much email, its like playing Whack-A-Mole all day.

pcharles• 15 years ago

What do you think would be a good solution to that?

katherinehague2• 15 years ago

Not sure, if I knew I wouldn't have such a problem with it :)

However, I do find that when I let the emails build up over a few hours, rather than answering them as they come in it takes a lot less time to answer them all at once and I can get other work done and be less distracted in between. But sometimes you need to keep checking because something could be important, and the compulsion to just respond is very strong and kills time. Maybe if I knew the deadline on responses (what was urgent) it would be easier. Priority inbox is good, but doesn't really help with this...

amorphid• 15 years ago

Trying to explain business process to a software developer.

damoncali• 15 years ago

Developer cost.

sunchild• 15 years ago

Lack of reliable free (or inexpensive) VOIP/Video conference even though I have 22Mbps/22Mbps. It is totally unacceptable to be dropped or clipped during a business conference call.

Also, lack of a inexpensive, easy to use conference bridging with global landline dial-in.

HN Business users: What are your daily pain points from a technology standpoint?

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