When I saw the headline on HN, my first thought was: "Just the one?!" A typical startup might deploy anywhere from 3 to 15 engineers on a product such as Thund

When I saw the headline on HN, my first thought was: "Just the one?!" A typical startup might deploy anywhere from 3 to 15 engineers on a product such as Thunderbird. Considering the amount of legacy it's saddled with, let alone the competing interests around e-mail in general, hiring a single engineer to work on this thing sounds like a token move at best, and likely a terrible waste of that person's time.