[darawk]

I think they're including salaries in those costs, so i'd guess it's mostly salaries. I'd be surprised if it was more than 2k/month in hosting costs.

[gregjw]

I doubt hosting costs are even that high, perhaps even ~1k.

[tzikis]

Thankfully, I can help answer this :)

The drilldown is roughly:

* $5K Amazon + mLab hosting

* $3K extra services (intercom, mailchimp, dropbox, gmail, slack etc)

* $1K accounting/payroll overhead

* $1K all office expenses

* $15K salaries

people underestimate the cost of compilations for 10,000 people. We have ~150,000 compilations per month ;)

[dogma1138]

Have you considered moving the compiler to the client side? In theory you can build a C/C++ and virtually any other language compiler in Javascript.

Security restrictions on the browser might be an issue, but i think you should be able to store the binary output in the local storage and upload it to the server.

[tzikis]

yeah but we're not crazy enough to do that :P