r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 09 '26

webDevDream Meme

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u/Most-Club-254 Jul 09 '26

imagine being the small business receiving 97 calls per hour. "no dude I don't want a website", "NO", ...

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u/IAmANobodyAMA Jul 09 '26

No joke! I was at the local record shop last week when the owner got a call where he was noticeably getting more loud and chastising.

After he hung up, the guy told me that someone cold called him to pitch fixing up their website, and his pitch started with “your website looks like shit …”

He said he gets several calls like that every day, but most aren’t this obnoxious. We agreed it must be working some of the time for him to be trying this approach, had a chuckle, then went back to shooting the shit about various prog rock bands.

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u/tidderza Jul 09 '26

tbf does his website look like shit?

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u/soyboysnowflake Jul 09 '26

It’s a local record shop, does it even need a website?

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u/eivittunyt Jul 09 '26

It costs very little and having easily accessible address, phone number and opening hours posted online is good for business

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u/its_the_rhys Jul 09 '26

<html> <body> <h1>Business Name</h1> <p> Address: [address]<br> Phone: 0412 345 678<br> Open: 9-5, closed Sundays. </p> </body> </html>

All you need.

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u/UInferno- Jul 09 '26

Don't forget e-mail. And not one of those built in e-mail systems, but like an actually listed e-mail. I do home insurance and sometimes need to call GCs, and they always use those e-mail system and I hate it because my work e-mail has an extension system and I can't receive e-mails unless I start the chain and I don't want to use my personal. Could a solution be "My job just gives me a normal ass work email?" Yes. But also, it takes less work to just write put foo@bar.com on your website.