[ericmcer]

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.

[runako]

> 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.

[troupo]

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...

[d1sxeyes]

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.

[omnimus]

Kudos to them afaik they were trying to pay their people well. I think they were paying more than 100k/year. I remember they had open position for double that.

[filoleg]

Sure, but even 200k/year is an order of magnitude less than 1.2mil/year (which is what the great-grandparent comment claimed, given their 100k/mo estimate).

[corobo]

100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao

[troupo]

My brain farted :)

[selcuka]

> 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.

[jacquesm]

That's how bloat happens.