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Erm... Doing 27'000 hours of development in private, without any customers beta-testing early versions of the site, seems completely insane. Why would you ever

by swombat 17y ago

Erm... Doing 27'000 hours of development in private, without any customers beta-testing early versions of the site, seems completely insane. Why would you ever do that? I mean, if you really don't have a choice at all, because the project is that big, then fair enough (but in that case, don't do this as your first start-up - do it later when you have access to funds and people). Imho the CTO/CEO of this start-up should have figured out a way to get something out there and test the concept for at most 1/10th of that cost. Much smarter, and cheaper, than trying to cram developers like chickens in a coop.

jlongster 17y ago
Yes. In light of your last sentence, the attitude of the article is what most developers are fighting. We are not slaves to be calculated into a cost efficiency equation.
torrenegra 17y ago
Hi! Alexander Torrenegra here :) - First of all, thank you all for reading the post. I had no idea it was going to become so popular and controversial. Swombat: You seemed to assumed that LetMeGo is my 1st startup. Actually, LetMeGo is my 4th startup. Not all of them have been successful, though. 27,000 hours may sound like a lot, but that is just a fraction of the time our competitors have invested in their software. Although you can be successful in other industries with very simple software, that is not usually the case in the lodging industry. I may be wrong, of course :S
breck 17y ago
The interesting thing was it was done in Colombia. If you read the job ad it pays 30,000,000 Colombian pesos, which equals ~$15,000 (or $5k/month per developer). Which is pretty damn cheap for a 40/hr week developer, nevermind 80. So it's even smarter than at first appears. edit: Colombia.
- alexitosrv 17y ago
  Colombia, South America is quite different to Columbia (sorry, just nitpicking a little ... :)
  - breck 17y ago
    i should really know better. (my gf is Colombian) :)

by swombat 17y ago

jlongster 17y ago

Yes. In light of your last sentence, the attitude of the article is what most developers are fighting. We are not slaves to be calculated into a cost efficiency equation.

torrenegra 17y ago

Hi! Alexander Torrenegra here :) - First of all, thank you all for reading the post. I had no idea it was going to become so popular and controversial. Swombat: You seemed to assumed that LetMeGo is my 1st startup. Actually, LetMeGo is my 4th startup. Not all of them have been successful, though. 27,000 hours may sound like a lot, but that is just a fraction of the time our competitors have invested in their software. Although you can be successful in other industries with very simple software, that is not usually the case in the lodging industry. I may be wrong, of course :S

breck 17y ago

The interesting thing was it was done in Colombia. If you read the job ad it pays 30,000,000 Colombian pesos, which equals ~$15,000 (or $5k/month per developer). Which is pretty damn cheap for a 40/hr week developer, nevermind 80. So it's even smarter than at first appears. edit: Colombia.

alexitosrv 17y ago
Colombia, South America is quite different to Columbia (sorry, just nitpicking a little ... :)
- breck 17y ago
  i should really know better. (my gf is Colombian) :)