[tomdell]

I spent the past two and a half years building prototype features for a large internal application. One month ago, the CFO decided that as a part of organizational restructuring, the company will no longer invest in the application. New development on it is ending, and the entire application may potentially be deprecated at some point in the future in favor of cheap dashboards.

I am being moved to the team that builds the cheap dashboards (I'm not happy about it). Among all the prototype work I did, only one significant project has made it into production - the others were continually iterated on for a couple of years, and though some of them have a highly engaged and appreciative beta userbase within the company, I am not allowed to do much more development on them, and they will be taken out of my hands at some point and passed off to other teams.

[drekipus]

Prototypes mean nothing.

I've tried to explain prototypes, draft/paper versions. People just nod and wonder why they can't use it yet. They live in their bubble and you live in yours

To be honest if you made 10 prototypes it just looks like you can't finish anything. Not that you're a genius problem solver.

Make something that barely works and then hand it over to them and don't look back. Ship it.

[bombcar]

The only prototypes are extremely personal. Once you show it to anyone else, it’s production.

[longjohnlarry]

I'm sorry to say this, but I think you're going to be laid off at some point.

[tomdell]

You're right! The company is very openly continuing layoffs for the next 2 years, so I don't have much faith in the team I was moved to sticking around for much longer. I fixed up my resume and started applying elsewhere the week after everyone I work with was laid off. The job search is going well, fortunately.