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___ as a Service

Michael Lee ๐Ÿ• on August 20, 2019

A. Side projects B. Automation ๐Ÿค– C. node_modules ๐Ÿ“‚ Or suggest your own answer.
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Patrik

Procrastination as a service.

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Michael Lee ๐Ÿ•

A service to help you stop procrastinating? Or a service to get paid for procrastinating but eventually doing it at the last minute? ๐Ÿค”

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Exequiel Beker

Or perhaps a service that procrastinates for you? ๐Ÿค”

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Patrik

All of it!

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Christopher Lai

D) Exiting Vim as a service

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Michael Lee ๐Ÿ•

Shudder this reminds of the days when I used to log into a family member's computer via Teamviewer to remotely unblock them from doing something.

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Christopher Lai

Haha, canโ€™t said Iโ€™ve done that.

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Vicente G. Reyes

Breaking Bad News as a Service haha

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Michael Lee ๐Ÿ•

I could see this being a very nice bot. But I would think the human touch would be necessary in a lot of scenarios.

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Vicente G. Reyes

It could be Google Assistant calling the person in need of the service to break to him/her the bad news!

I just saw this on facebook the other day and it made me rofl lol

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Carlos Trapet

Service as a service
or my all time favourite,
F*ck Off as a Service

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Michael Lee ๐Ÿ•

The first link was behind a paywall :(

Wow, FOaaS. Very interesting ๐Ÿ˜‰ Have you ever had to use it?

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Carlos Trapet

"had to use" - no, "wanted to use because it's better documented than most of the code I use at work" - yes :)

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Michael Lee ๐Ÿ•

I agree, the docs are pretty compelling. Another reason to put care in documentation. Helps with adoption.

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Pramod Ghuge

Jobs as a service? ๐Ÿคฃ

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Vicente G. Reyes

Haha No! It's breaking bad news to people as a service lol