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by devs1010 5299 days ago
I don't mean to be overly critical but letting this go for 3 months is a bit much, in my opinion. If I were in the same situation after a week or two of my doing a lot of work with him doing nothing I would have had a talk with him, maybe just something to consider going forward, maybe I'm more cynical than I should be but you always have to be looking out for your best interest when it comes to startups and small companies. I'm not saying trying to screw others over but these situations tend to have issues like this arise fairly often it seems.
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That's definitely a fair point, 3 months is a long time.

It's gone on so long mainly because we ended up having separate responsibilities. It all sounds a bit silly in retrospect. After he said he'd tackle the business stuff--instead of coding which he couldn't find time for--our responsibilities pretty much ran in parallel without intersecting. Until now.

I've had my head down for those 3 months--baring in mind this is part-time--hacking away, and it's only when I've come to start dealing with things he was responsible for (like, "Hey, you manage to get a VPS for our test box yet?" "No, sorry mate been too busy.") that I've realised that he's effectively done nothing for a good few months.

In hindsight, we should've been communicating more. I shouldn't have let this go on for so long; at least not without some communication.