sam-a

I see a lot of negative comments from people online and very little interest from people about PHP. I'm not sure what the deal is and i'm a little confused. There're more hypes around Python, Java, Go than PHP, even though PHP is very good language on it's own.

I really love and enjoy PHP, i've been building amazing apps in PHP and using the Laravel framework too. What i also like about PHP is the OOP design i can use when building.

Is PHP dead like some people claim? Is it not gonna be useful in the future? Are there no mission critical systems built with PHP?

Has anyone had issues with Freelance websites like Toptal, Freelancer, Upwork, & others?

I want to know issues people have had with these sites and what you would like to see, what you think they can do better, especially for software engineers who're looking for side gigs.

I work with Callrail.com alot, been using them for about 8 months now, built several apps with the API and it seems to be fine.

The issue i'm having with Callrail is custom fields. I want to be able to create a new custom field in Callrail, like Salesforce, then pass data to this custom field from the API, also get data from this custom field from Callrail using the API.

Is anyone else having issue like this? or any experience like this? It may be with a different Phone number/text message marketing provider, not necessarily Callrail.

I just want to know if this issue has been solved.

Also, will it make sense to have marketing automation with phone number? The same way we have with email addresses, thinking of a platform that provides something like this.

I have a couple of freelance projects that i need experienced developers to work on. For example, one of the project will be paying about $20,000, or higher than that, but i need engineers from companies like FAANG to work on them.

Will they be too busy to work on it? Will engineers like this be interested?

I joined a startup not too long ago, there're 2 of us working as engineers there, but we're overworked. Sometimes i have to work about 70 hours a week, the pay is okay, but not as much as it could be, it's lower than industry standard, and i don't have equity either. Also communication with the founder is a challenge.

Has anyone been in this same situation before? How did you handle it?

I've started searching for other opportunities, and i've seen a couple, i'll be leaving soon. I want to hear other people's experience & opinion. Is it always like this with startups?