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Having worked on design system teams before people can burn a lot of time and money doing overly nuanced stuff. I have been in meetings discussing removing/addi
by ericmcer 9mo ago
Having worked on design system teams before people can burn a lot of time and money doing overly nuanced stuff. I have been in meetings discussing removing/adding a property on a React component before.
That said 3 motivated developers and a designer should be more than sufficient to build a css library, but you could 100% have a team of 20 and they would find stuff to do.
- jacquesm 9mo agoThat's how bloat happens.
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- runako 9mo ago> 3 motivated developers and a designer Curious how much cash folks think it takes to cover this headcount. I have a feeling people are wildly underestimating the cost of a team this size.
- troupo 9mo agoAt 100k per person per month it's 400k per month (the actual cost is higher. 100k in salary is easily 150k with all the taxes included). Times that by 12...
- d1sxeyes 9mo ago100k/mo is off by an order of magnitude. I’m sure some lucky people are raking in 1.2M p.a., but doubt the tailwind devs were.
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- omnimus 9mo agoKudos to them afaik they were trying to pay their people well. I think they were paying more than 100k/year. I remember they had open position for double that.
- filoleg 9mo agoSure, but even 200k/year is an order of magnitude less than 1.2mil/year (which is what the great-grandparent comment claimed, given their 100k/mo estimate).
- corobo 9mo ago100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao
- troupo 9mo agoMy brain farted :)
- selcuka 9mo ago> That said 3 motivated developers and a designer should be more than sufficient That's how they worked (they had 4 employees and recently fired 3 of them). Four employees is still a huge cost, for a CSS library with lifetime subscription plans.