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@AlmondSauce Agree. Maybe if your buddy was paying for half of it, they wouldn’t be so blasé about it. Doesn’t make sense for one part of a partnership to be the only one sinking money into a project, especially if the other part of the partnership isn’t communicating/holding up their end.
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@AlmondSauce Yup, thanks for the reality check, I needed that!
I'm gonna make a list of all the expenses I've had since this started and share that with him and explain the seriousness of the problem. I'm bleeding money here.
I like the project, but it's gotta start paying for itself now. -
@dissolvedgirl Absolutely.
At a minimum you need to agree expenses will be 50/50 going forward, but preferably just don't keep the infra going until he has a solid business plan. He's never going to care while he can piss around pretending to create a bit of content while you do all the heavy lifting and pay all the bills.
This is all assuming you haven't got money you want to just throw away for the sake of it,though I'm assuming you don't - not many of us do! -
@dissolvedgirl if he is not doing any substantial work, tell him to pay the full fee. Your investment in developing the tech is large enough. If he doesn’t like it, tell him to fuck off.
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@dissolvedgirl yeah based on what I have heard and what I would do, I would not work with them ever again
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Update: ok so he's not using it after spending half an hour showing him how to use it and why it is necessary. He hasn't added a single task, I have no idea what he's up to, he just sends me random updates on things and I'm like okay, I don't know where this is supposed to go. I sent him this article about product management and roadmaps, which is a good read, so hopefully he will understand. https://stephen.fm/how-to-evaluate-...
He's even asked me to now work on some of his shit (which I don't know how to do), and I literally don't even have time to play with my poor dog. He doesn't have a job, while I'm at university, and I have a full-time job, and I have to manage food and cooking for the family. I gotta get out of this... Last fuckin time I work with friends. -
@dissolvedgirl Obligatory reminder that if someone treats you like this, they’re not your friend.
Friend and I work on some side hustle. He does most of the content work, I just manage the tech stuff and pay for infrastructure. Domain renewal is upcoming too, so yeah...
He has refused to adopt project management methodologies and task tracking tools multiple times and it's becoming a real problem since I am paying for infrastructure and there are no plans for generating income. There was, but it's vaguely defined and I have no fucking idea what he's working on. I ask, but it's always vague AF.
I have no idea where this thing is going and I barely have time to work on it. Two weeks before I am writing exams, he asks me to urgently help with a project he's behind on due to power outages. I just fucking can't, I have too much other things on my plate right now.
Gonna have to have a sitdown, I can't keep spending money like this and not have a damn roadmap for planning things.
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