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0 pointsKronisLV1y ago0 comments

> Solo developer at the tiny company.

> Fix bugs and add features while keeping the system available to the tens of thousands of users.

Don't tens of thousands of users warrant more developers? Or having enough of a budget to work on tests, or other things to improve the developer experience and be able to work without lots of stress? That's unfortunate.

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ben_w1y ago

I think I managed about 10k users with my mac shareware games in 2009/10, and that didn't get me ramen profitability let alone modern pay scales.

So not necessarily any budget for more than they did.

Aeolun1y ago

Single dev codebases have a really hard time growing to 400kloc though

rudasn1y ago

Hmm. I've found that it's much easier and faster to write a lot of code than to take the time and be thoughtful of what you end up shipping.

> I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21422-i-didn-t-have-time-to...

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ben_w1y ago

The point is that one cannot be confident that 10k users maps to "enough money to engineer this properly".

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0 pointsKronisLV1y ago0 comments

> Solo developer at the tiny company.

> Fix bugs and add features while keeping the system available to the tens of thousands of users.

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ben_w1y ago

I think I managed about 10k users with my mac shareware games in 2009/10, and that didn't get me ramen profitability let alone modern pay scales.

So not necessarily any budget for more than they did.

Aeolun1y ago

Single dev codebases have a really hard time growing to 400kloc though

rudasn1y ago

Hmm. I've found that it's much easier and faster to write a lot of code than to take the time and be thoughtful of what you end up shipping.

> I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21422-i-didn-t-have-time-to...

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ben_w1y ago

The point is that one cannot be confident that 10k users maps to "enough money to engineer this properly".

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