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> a team of 10 good programmers in a month can probably rewrite everything unless you scope-down "everything" to the point of triviality, that is ludicrously u
by aroman 4y ago
> a team of 10 good programmers in a month can probably rewrite everything
unless you scope-down "everything" to the point of triviality, that is ludicrously underestimating the intrinsic complexity of twitter's product surface, and all the plumbing and necessary tools that lie beneath
- uptownfunk 4y agoProbably not as hard as it seems, Amazon does this regularly with the concept of 2 pizza team. The real challenge is figuring out what is the 20% of Twitter that drives 80% of revenue. Probably basic Twitter posting and ads, and whatever fraud/bot prevention is needed to keep running smoothly.
- bagacrap 4y agowhy would you throw away 20% of your revenue? Obviously a lot of functionality is there to chase marginal percentages of revenue, but it's still worthwhile at Twitter scale.
- propogandist 4y agoBecause twitter is a money losing business. The cost of that 20% revenue is too high and hurts the profit margin.
- lupire 4y agoAmazon has more than 50 employees.
- rjzzleep 4y agogiven how many people twitter employs and how many features actually get shipped at twitter, I'd say scope-down isn't that terrible of an idea