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PM reports dev team unable to ship basic API endpoints after six months, causing severe anxiety and seeking coping strategies
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A Hacker News discussion thread in which a product owner for a legacy enterprise system describes a stalled modernization project, deteriorating mental health, and asks the community for survival strategies while job hunting in a competitive Swedish market.
The thread illustrates a recognizable organizational failure: a modernization initiative promised to customers but staffed by a team lacking the skills to deliver it, with the PM left to bridge the gap between management commitments and engineering reality. Commenters overwhelmingly advise emotional detachment rather than process fixes, suggesting the situation is not solvable from the PM's position.
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A product owner was hired to lead API-based modernization of a legacy system, but the development team lacks experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining APIs.
After six months the team has not shipped even basic GET endpoints, while management continues to tell customers that modernization is a top priority.
Commenters uniformly advise the poster to stop deriving personal worth from the job and to find meaning outside work while continuing to search for another role.
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