Snap Inc. S-1 - Hackdot

Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by chinathrow on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:52PM (#13555083)

Wow, single cloud lock-in filed with the SEC. Isn't 400m/y a bit steep for storage and compute power?

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by brandon272 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:58PM (#13555149)

$400 million annually represents a monthly cost per user of $0.21 at 158 million daily active users. Which seems high at scale when looking at storage + bandwidth alone, I would think, but I'm also not a big Snapchat user so I'm not sure what is going on in terms of long term storage of video on an account level.

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by hrrsn on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:02PM (#13555191)

I would think their bandwidth costs are astronomical. Since 19/3/16 Snapchat has used 14.8GB of mobile data on my iPhone alone - not including WiFi.

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by johansch on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:10PM (#13555291)

Bandwidth is kinda cheap these days though, if you avoid GC and AWS. Anyone have recent numbers at this scale of commitment?

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by sjg007 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:59PM (#13556293)

They will get a bulk discount so it will be cheap probably close to zero.

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by omarchowdhury on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:06PM (#13556735)

Close to zero but $400M in related expense.

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by marcamillion on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:16AM (#13558712)

I literally lolled at this comment.

I assume this is sarcasm...just want to verify :)

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Re:Snap Inc. S-1 by jonknee on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:09PM (#13555276)

I would also assume they have factored in some growth over the next 5 years... If they don't have many multiples of 158M DAU by 2022 they are screwed regardless of their hosting bill.

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