Hopefully Wesley will come through.
Looking forward.
Wait... unable to deliver in deadline OR unable to deliver ANYTHING!?
It has gotten to the point that this looks like a joke. The official response also seems underwhelming - this can't be that "simple" if no one can do it. If four professionals can't do the job something else is happening, it can't be they are all lazy and stupid. So what is happening?
I've heard the phrase "welcome to the world of..." 5x already from you in this thread and it looks worse everytime. I'm just dumbfounded that the GUI is causing such massive headaches for you and the team. Could we have a more detailed response as to what is proving so difficult?
It truly is, nothing else. It's a simple HTML5/CSS/JS/SVG UI. There is really nothing super complex about it, one dev mentioned that the API was a bit different from what he expected, but nothing else.
In short summary:
We first hired a UI dev from
www.dribbble.com late December with the agreed time schedule of beginning at the start of January. He never showed up, and never responded, and hasn't used any of his social media since with exception of 1 post. I have NO idea what happened to him, but hope he's alright even though it seems he fell off the face of the Earth.
CreativeDash screwed us over when they lost their dev (which in retrospect they probably already knew was going to happen, but decided not to tell us to get money for design). Then they 'forgot' to send crucial files for a whole month, and then when confronted about lacking certain animations as agreed on before work commenced they just stopped replying. Worst design firm in the world, no matter their impressive portfolio.
Dan Warfel literally just disappeared for weeks at a time, claiming he was in the hospital, but then when I discovered he was still posting on social media while 'in the hospital' and not responding to us and confronted him with it, he just started making up more and more excuses about being "95% done". This guy had several 'breakdowns' during our conversations, literally to the point where I was afraid he might hurt himself. He also spent the funds we gave him upfront, so he had to borrow money to refund us, which took quite some time. Again this guy had an impressive portfolio too.
Latest UI dev we have used is Wesley who made the Nxt Client and SecureAE client. Unfortunately he has also been unreliable, I still like Wesley for his work in the past and I know he got the skills to be useful, but apparently some health issues is impacting his performance and so there has been extended delays. Right now we're still working things out with him because at least I know he works, just way way slower than what we agreed upon.
So yea, that's the whole story. Lesson to be learned: even if you do full background checks, hire professionals and sign contracts: you're still likely to be screwed a couple of times. We have just been extremely unlucky with UI development, there's no other issue going on. In the meanwhile we have added functionality to IOTA core and found several ways to optimize IOTA, which matters. GUI is for humans, machines don't care about GUI, so that's why we haven't panicked about Murphy's Law striking down hard on us with the GUI. Of course now that we're approaching launch we need the GUI, so either Wesley will finish it or we will put it together ourselves by the end of the month. HOPEFULLY Wesley will deliver.
