[DrOctagon]

Quite a few years ago as a (very) junior FE dev I used mammoth.js to automate the generation of a biennial report. Three months had been earmarked for the task as this is what it had taken in previous years (due to bad tools and lack of expertise). I had it done in less than a week by using mammoth. Mike was also very accommodating with questions I'm pleased I cant remember as I'm sure they were embarrassingly simple.

The project still took three months as it was one of those special type of organisations, but it wasn't due to the HTML generation :)

Thank you for mammoth.js!

[musingsole]

Your story and mammoth's origin story really highlight how the Sisyphean corporate world is seemingly at odds -- or at least tangential -- to progress.

[DrOctagon]

In the interest of full disclosure it was a government org. Your point still stands though.

[yunohn]

> government org

Governments and corporates function incredibly similarly.

[myth_buster]

Government is a corporation at extreme.

[leros]

I'm just thinking about how mammoth.js is being developed for free but is being used by corporations to make money. In a way, he's working for free by making this open source. Something is off about that.

[nullsense]

Then again, a lot of us have paying jobs because of companies that are leveraging open source software. So... I guess it's some kind of altruistic strategy that helps us devs survive better in aggregate?

[kevinmchugh]

This is true for most popular open source projects, fwiw

[eurasiantiger]

Corporate does not care about the job, or the client. Corporate only cares about billable hours.

[xcambar]

Predictability, revenue per employee, and predictability of revenue per employee ;)