Is it possible to design a piece of software that is identical to soup.io but runs at a fraction of the cost? The answer is almost certainly "yes, if you're wi

Is it possible to design a piece of software that is identical to soup.io but runs at a fraction of the cost? The answer is almost certainly "yes, if you're willing to rewrite it from scratch". Unfortunately the capex required to do that weighs heavily on the opex saving. "They should have designed it from the start to be efficient" would normally be my next thought - but there by grace go us all.