[cvhashim]

You sound pretty jaded. But your thoughts don't really match my experience with software agencies as you mentioned. I previously worked for a software consulting shop/agency. Our mindset wasn't just build some crap software and deliver as you might imagine, we actually put care and effort into our work despite half the team being freelancers who might never work on the product again.

[thrwn_frthr_awy]

I think it is important to differentiate software agencies and digital marketing agencies. Early in my career I worked at a few digital marketing agencies and this does feel very similar to what could be churned out. Everything was sold on the design. Sales teams would promise, mockups would be signed off on by clients without engineers looking at them, and there was usually a rush because of time and/or money once the project made it to the engineers hands.

[corytheboyd]

This is what I mean, thanks for adding the clarity that I neglected to. I did make it sound too much like a personal attack against the implementers here, but you’re right in that the ones hiring the agencies are just looking for the fastest possible output, not quality, and applying that pressure.

[corytheboyd]

I too have worked with such agencies that actually care, and of course they exist. I guess I wanted my hot take HN comment and didn’t take the time to explicitly state that not every software consulting agency produces low quality work. If you don’t mind me asking, did you work on marketing landing pages like this one or something else? These marketing pages in particular are what I am calling out.