When something bothers me, I tend to voice my opinion and make sure that the source of my frustration is fixed or eliminated. Today is the turn of Syndakit Media Corporation, a small web development company from Toronto, Ontario. They are dishonest and not the company of choice to ever do business with again, let me tell you why.

When I and the NBTC2010 team first started compiling ideas for our new website, an engineer from the Syndakit joined our team to create the website and to support our web needs. The guy seemed to be knowledgeable, demonstrated a good resume, and sounded passionate about his work. To cut a long and unpleasant story short, he turned out to be simply incompetent and a bad engineer. Don’t get me wrong, he was a good coder (he could type and copy code from other people), but a bad engineer (he couldn’t figure out how to make new things using stuff he copied).

As time went by, the website started falling significantly behind the schedule. Our developer had a million side projects going on and doing this not-for-profit website just wasn’t on his mind anymore. We were left with a crappy and empty website, and about 2 month to go to the conference. Exciting, isn’t it?

Okay, so that was bad, but check this out. The Syndakit Corp is now claiming that:

“Syndakit created a website that was social media orientated, user friendly and designed to capture its technologically savy audience.  Very cool and easy to update, NBTC got a website that met all its needs and more!”

Technically, what they are saying isn’t completely wrong. Syndakit did slap together a WordPress theme for us and they did add a twitter icon to the website, but that’s about it.

When we fired the developer from Syndakit, we actually got a UofT engineer  by the name of Jonathan Zhao to come on board and completely revamp the crap that was developed by Syndakit. In a matter of weeks Jonathan and his buddy Jovan added all the content and features that were waiting for 3 months to be implemented.

You see, I can understand that the engineer from Syndakit was busy, and I can understand that he wasn’t really skilled at WordPress, and I am grateful that the company still provided us with some perks, even post the traumatic encounter. However, when they claim to had done work that they hadn’t, it personally hurts me to know that one of my team members isn’t getting a credit that he deserves. In this case Syndakit isn’t just concealing the truth, they are literally stealing from my friend, and that can’t be tolerated.

p.s. If you would like a website, consider contacting me and I can point you to the honest people.