On: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

[mkoryak]

The idea was that you would visit participating merchants, spend money there and they would give you codes on stickers that they generated from our site and then the customers would use those codes on the site with purchase amount to get sayacash. One problem we had was that the codes we generated turned out to be invalid because... we didnt know why. We generated the codes, but they werent in the database. Where did they go? The customers would try to enter them, and be told that they are invalid, or go to their dashboard and see stuff that wasnt theirs because there was only one session object for the entire app.

It was a huge mess. At some point we made a video that would explain how the site was to be used. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@sayagle.

Every single person in every video was employed by this company. The tea place in the first video was owned by the founder. :)

[proneb1rd → mkoryak]

Wow in the first video the man behind the camera refers to customers as clowns. Acts as if the guy he grabbed is stupid and not capable to enter a code on the web page. So weird.

[mkoryak → proneb1rd]

I just noticed that the video about donating to charities ends with the narrator trailing off with "I don't know what I should say".

I am surprised we decided to upload those videos. It might have been during the time when people weren't being paid regularly

[gwerbret → mkoryak]

It sounds like this was a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible company. I suppose it's telling that a Google search mostly turns up your story about the company, and an assortment of random mentions from a decade and a half ago. How did Sayagle die in the end?

[mkoryak → gwerbret]

ran out of money

[6510 → mkoryak]

My employer let me pick my own gift from a website with countless products. I visited regularly to progress looking over the gifts. The small print said you had something like 7 days to chose. After 2 or 3 weeks I finally made a choice, it congratulated me, deducted the points from my balance and provided tracking information. Then nothing happened. I could even log in again and spend the remaining points but nothing shipped.