Comment by ericmcer
1 day 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.
> 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.
At 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...
100k/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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100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao
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> 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.
That's how bloat happens.