[StackRanker3000]

> Do people just pull random numbers out of their ass with no actual experience?

That’s a weird question to ask someone who stated their relevant experience in the first sentence of their comment. I just looked him up on LinkedIn and it checks out, you can do the same.

If you have substantive objections to what he wrote, perhaps it’s better to state them explicitly? You seem to say that the figure he suggested is based on developers being based in a very expensive location, and therefore not generalizable.

What numbers have you come up with that contradict his?

[wordofx]

His prices are so wild that I would be surprised if anyone agrees with him.

[carlcoryell]

~10 FTEs, US, 75% percentile salaries, fully loaded, 1.5-3M. Figure that team salaries is probably about 50% of the total software cost (hosting, support, tooling, on call, management overhead, recruiting, training etc)$3-$5M. Rounded to the nearest 0.5 for convenience. We got about ~4 bits of data from the OP, so I didn’t put too much work into making my estimate precise. I prefer to get the ‘software is fucking expensive and terrible’ experience on the front end and go from there, if people are still into it.

[wordofx]

Lol

Avg salary in the U.S. is 105k. Better to go on average as you’re not going to high 10 seniors. That would be dumb. Hell getting 10 for an in house app is just as dumb. Hosting? On an in house app. If they spend more than 100k in the first year that’s dumb too. Support for an in house app? That’s part of the dev team. Tooling? For what? Some IDEs and few dev tools like slack etc. Let’s bundle it with their equipment. 100k for some computers and software.

I don’t understand how HN has to always look at the extreme pessimistic side to everything. The type of people here are the ones who go into a business and spend insane amounts of money building junk software wanting to pull in 5 different databases, 3 caches, elastic search and host their 10 years on 25 “microservices” hosted in docker that falls over multiple times a day when 95% of the software people on HN build could be hosted on a couple of load balancer servers with a single db instance. Spend way too much money trying to solve non existent problems.