Ask HN: Would you please take a 6 question survey about web development?

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1 point·josh_carterPDX··6 comments

"If you had a tool or platform that could cut down your backend development time in half, would you use it?"

Of course I would use that if it didn't make the backend worse in some way. Who wouldn't? You might as well ask someone, "Would you take $100 if I gave it to you without asking for anything in return?"

But when you're saving me time, there must be some tradeoffs. What are they? At this point, I'm at a good equilibrium of time vs. quality tradeoffs, and I haven't seen any tools on the horizon that will make a huge difference there.

Good question. This survey was meant to be very high level. We wanted it to take less than a minute to get through. So the questions are deliberately vague.

As for the trade-offs, Brightwork is a platform that cuts the back end application development time in half by providing a robust and reliable API to enable developers to build fast and scale. You can also switch APIs on the fly without having to recode or redeploy their application.

So we host your application's backend (eventually we want to open source this). Perhaps that could be perceived as the trade-off.

"If you had a tool or platform that could cut down your backend development time in half, would you use it?"

Haha, no, I'd rather spend twice the time, thanks :)

The question implied that you would not use something like this and just do what you currently do today.

Sure, I understand the question, but without context (how hard is the tool to learn, how mature is it, etc) it's kind of a weird question. Why would you chose to do what you currently do if a tool can save you time (again, without any other context).

Well I don't do full stack, so I personally would not use it.

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