Comment by zer0x4d
4 months ago
Never said that, but a competent engineer should be able to build like 75% of the main functionality of Zendesk over a weekend.
Now, I understand there's probably a lot more to it which is why I would expect it to be a company of around 50 engineers and 150 business/marketing/etc and that's being generous.
The hill I'd die on is that, with money not being a scarce resource and a technically feasible challenge present, a team of 200 should be able to build and sustain almost anything in the world. And that's being even generous. I think realistically a team of 50 should be able to build almost anything
That’s a very HN take but the reality is that the tech is usually never the hard part. Selling, supporting, legal, all the certifications and enterprise contracts you have to do for a product like that are the hard part.
Valuable? Yes Tiring? Sure Hard? I guess
You have to admit it's a very social job, talking with lots and lots and lots of people