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I find it useful to tell people around how many engineers that company has. They won't understand why, but they may understand that they don't understand. I al
by satyrnein 6y ago
I find it useful to tell people around how many engineers that company has. They won't understand why, but they may understand that they don't understand.
I also point out when a requested feature actually exists as a whole company.
- sincerely 6y agoOn the other hand, this is my profession and I still have no idea why Twitter has so many engineers.
- Piskvorrr 6y agoAh, the eternal temptation: "but that's Easy! I can tackle this single-handed! produces a minimal, text-only prototype which scales enough for a couple thousand users"
- lukeramsden 6y agoScaling for infinite users as a solo developer is easy, just go Serverless! Just make sure you have infinite money first.
- bob33212 6y agoWhat do you mean 1 part time IT guy can't run our entire SaaS product? It is just a few clicks on AWS to get it up and running.
- deergomoo 6y agoI've started doing this too. The director of the company I work at is non-technical and will semi-regularly come to us expecting that we can build a competitor to Product XYZ in 6 months. Pointing out that Product XYZ has 3000 employees and has been carving out a niche since 1995, while there are six of us with no knowledge of that market, is usually the only thing that gets him to accept that just because he understands what something does, it doesn't mean he understands what it takes to build it.