Comment on Stack Exchange Engineering: How We Built Our BlogparentComments−fsk11yMy 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.−jlangenauer11yTWO MILLION DOLLARS on a blogging system.I'm speechless.−morgante11yIt might surprise you even more to know that the creators of the most popular blogging system have raise $317M.−hueving11y10 silicon Valley software engineers on something goes through 2 million in under a year when you consider total cost of employment.−jon-wood11yIf it takes 10 engineers a year to build a blog then something is very wrong.−rokhayakebe11yI 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.
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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 features that come with Wordpress.
They ditched it and switched back to Wordpress.
TWO MILLION DOLLARS on a blogging system.
I'm speechless.
It might surprise you even more to know that the creators of the most popular blogging system have raise $317M.
10 silicon Valley software engineers on something goes through 2 million in under a year when you consider total cost of employment.
If it takes 10 engineers a year to build a blog then something is very wrong.
I 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.