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$25,000 a month operating costs. Wow. I'd really love to see a breakdown of these costs! It would help so many other entrepreneurs out there.
by Sembiance 10y ago
$25,000 a month operating costs. Wow. I'd really love to see a breakdown of these costs! It would help so many other entrepreneurs out there.
- darawk 10y agoI think they're including salaries in those costs, so i'd guess it's mostly salaries. I'd be surprised if it was more than 2k/month in hosting costs.
- gregjw 10y agoI doubt hosting costs are even that high, perhaps even ~1k.
- tzikis 10y agoThankfully, I can help answer this :) The drilldown is roughly: * $5K Amazon + mLab hosting * $3K extra services (intercom, mailchimp, dropbox, gmail, slack etc) * $1K accounting/payroll overhead * $1K all office expenses * $15K salaries people underestimate the cost of compilations for 10,000 people. We have ~150,000 compilations per month ;)
- dogma1138 10y agoHave you considered moving the compiler to the client side? In theory you can build a C/C++ and virtually any other language compiler in Javascript. Security restrictions on the browser might be an issue, but i think you should be able to store the binary output in the local storage and upload it to the server.
- tzikis 10y agoyeah but we're not crazy enough to do that :P
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- imron 10y agoThe fact that they plan to keep things running indefinitely if possible seem to indicate that servers and bandwidth are not the bulk of the cost So I guess most of it is on paying developers and maybe some office space. 25,000 won't go a long way, even taking in to account cheaper salaries in Greece. Edit: Their team page says they have 6 employees, so 25,000 probably doesn't go a long way.