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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by manxman on Monday October 16, 2023 @11:01PM (#37910028)
Whatsapp was <50 people when it got acquired for ~$19bn and they had the ability to turn on $150million in revenue at the drop of a hat.

It's interesting people are talking about bloated software in this thread and their love of lean software. Large teams often lead to bloated software.

On an internet with billions of users online, there's a legit argument that most if not all technology companies are severely bloated.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by psychoslave on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:24AM (#37910594)
It’s all about the evaluation chart you take. It’s easy to pick random criteria to justify any of the following claim. Humanity is bloated. Mammals are bloated. Multi-cellular organisms are bloated. Eucaryote are bloated. Life is bloated.
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by danjac on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:40AM (#37910700)
Bandcamp has (or had) 118 people. Their business is music, not a chat app, so it will have different needs, both technical and non-technical. Maybe their engineering team is slightly larger than WhatsApp, but not by orders of magnitude.
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