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My employer originally had a Wordpress-based blogging product. They spent more than $2M writing their own blogging system, and it still was missing many featur
by fsk 11y ago
My employer originally had a Wordpress-based blogging product.
They spent more than $2M writing their own blogging system, and it still was missing many features that come with Wordpress.
They ditched it and switched back to Wordpress.
- jlangenauer 11y agoTWO MILLION DOLLARS on a blogging system. I'm speechless.
- morgante 11y agoIt might surprise you even more to know that the creators of the most popular blogging system have raise $317M.
- hueving 11y ago10 silicon Valley software engineers on something goes through 2 million in under a year when you consider total cost of employment.
- jon-wood 11y agoIf it takes 10 engineers a year to build a blog then something is very wrong.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoI would like to see a study where one would give the same project with a solid deadline to three different teams of 3, 15, 30 engineers and see how long it takes each them to finish it.