A two-person startup built an employee-onboarding tool on WordPress with offshore developers, but constant bugs and support demands drained their limited resources. They scrapped it entirely, learning that early-stage teams need technology they can actually maintain.
And in our industry, you're absolutely right. So I got another thing I don't think I've ever talked about on here before. We actually, we built a first version of our platform. We built it on freaking WordPress. Um, and like we built an employee onboarding only system. I had some offshore developers build for me. It was terrible. Um, I mean, the product was like cool looking, functional-ish. Um, like it would have worked really well if it worked. But to your point, like, it became— we were only using it for this one thing, and our existing system didn't have employee onboarding. So it was like, oh cool, we're just building this point solution. And but the number of calls we would take debugging and then waiting for the dev team to fix something for, you know, hours, if not days, depending on the complexity of the bug. And then like, we were just a 2 or 3 person business at the time. So we weren't prepared mentally and physically and monetarily for like the build of what this was going to take. So I literally took that product and threw it in the garbage.
