I'm a freelancer web dev who started a new side project with a partner (whom I reached out via cold email) a few months ago. I brought the tech & they brought the content (we were about to create an online education service). Things moved slowly, but they were always moving, and at a pace I was happy with.Issue arised when I spoted an issue in one of the services that we used. I reached out to the service support, but no good solution were offered. This issue could affected my partner, but I ignored it & decide to go ahead. The reasons were that I thought the benefits of that service outweight the flaws; and there were work-around, albeit a bit inconvenient. I have worked with many startup teams that wouldn't care.We were just about to launch a serious content piece, however the partner found out about the issue. I made it worse and pretended I did not know about it. They then contact the aforementioned service about the issue, and to shorten a long story, they realized I had already done that, which blew my cover.We had a call and it didn't went well, as one might had expected. I didn't realize how serious this issue was for them until the call. They weren't happy with the workaround I suggested (which I had a moment of 'wait, really..?) Since it was early days, there were really nothing. I kept the stuff I made, they kept theirs, we went on our seperated ways.I felt terrible about this. I can put myself in the shoe of my partner & understood that it was enough to end everything. I drew out the diagram of how all our tech stacks would be connected, but I left the partner out of the picture because I thought they wouldn't care and they wouldn't mind.I learned that trust needed to be earned, and communication is everything... and no two person is the same. The tech-savvy marketers I work with on the daily basis have a different tolerance for tech issues than an industry outsider. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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