Show of hands who here bootstrapped without VCs!!!!

The tiny company I got my first dev job, they used to code without VCS and made file changes directly over FTP. I got to teach them what Git is. I regret having started my career there...

I had a company that would give their software away to customers and have it installed to on-prem servers.
Now this wouldn't be a problem if we version controlled and updated every client the same. But we didn't do that. Instead we would update each client individually (by RDing into their machines and doing changes), and if a client had a software request, we would build that for that client but we wouldn't build it for anyone else. So the code ended up being vastly different between all the clients making it a massive headache to try and do an update.

This was for a team of 4 at the time. 2 developers and 2 support staff.

The best part, it was using classic ASP as it's backend server language. There were so many bugs it was absolutely unbelievable that it was working for people.

my first company didn't even havy any kind of test system. any development happened by directly editing the scripts on production, and the only hint of versioning was the good old "_new", "_new_new", "_new_final", "_new_final2"...

I got started without a VCS but enjoyed what Git could do once I got into it, despite (or, maybe as a consequence of?) being a solo dev. PhpStorm's Git integration was what really made VCS a help, rather than a hindrance, for me.

I meant Venture capitals but nice discussion, keep going xD.

i'd say you're probably not a true developer if you see "vcs" and don't think of "version control systems" first ;)

@tosensei A true developer is that one who is self-sufficient. Runs his own business, and is complete without needing to rant about his job. ;)

@jassole "runs his own business" - no. that's a business owner, not a developer. kinda by definition ;)

@jassole VCs are mostly about getting funded without having an actual product from what I hear. "greater sucker theory".

Mezzanine is where major banks dump money they stole from the treasury, so it doesn't lose value sitting in an account, when it could be used for political bribes (I'm looking at you sam).

Shades of 1999.

@tosensei i heard some people calling themselves business developers. that's a fun hat to wear.

@tw001 well can me whatever you want lol. I bootstrapped my product solo for 2 years, still manage multiple aspects of the business and do coding in Rust, Typescript....

Game on.

Yes, I acquire some new VCs (venture capitalists) to help manage my new vcs (version control system) product, as I couldn’t afford the business version of vsc (visual studio code) alone

@IdontHaveAName People used Visual C plus pluS last century. That was a crazy kind of VCS.