[whiteopinions]

This sounds like you wrote something extremely limited. The client will inevitably ask for some modification to it, and if you're not there to do it the next developer is going to curse at you for writing such a brain dead application.

I've seen comments like this on HN and then I've seen these types of applications in the wild. I call it the most dishonest form of consulting you can do. You've put a real shine on some inflexible shit and the clients obviously have no way of knowing what they've bought into.

>It replaced a site that was a mess of javascript libraries on top of frameworks on top of a half dozen jquery version and on and on and on.

These people are incapable of correctly evaluating work they contract out, or who is doing it. Why do you think you're an exception in this case?

[wolco]

A simple custom php site is extremely easy to follow if you have a programming background.

If I'm the next developer I would thank him.

Ever deal with 5 versions of jQuery that are conflicting. Trust me life is easier in vanilla php.

[whiteopinions]

You know what's actually incredibly easy if you have a programming background?

Consolidating versions of jQuery.

>If I'm the next developer I would thank him.

For what? You wouldn't know anything about the previous site implementation

[nfgu]

I've seen countless unmaintainable applications written using popular MVC frameworks that required simple modifications, but the next person in line wasn't able to understand what the hell was going on.

Popular frameworks are not silver bullets, but apparently it's popular on HN to think so.

[whiteopinions]

No one said they were silver bullets. No one.