[zeroq]

A textbook definition of "feature creep".

I have absolutely no idea if CodePen is feeling pressure from their shareholders or want to cook before the IPO, but I often wonder why Spotify needs 3,000 [1] developers working full time on a streaming app.

4 weeks ago there was a thread about Spotify making over 4,000 production releases a day (or 10 in 10 minutes in another comment in that thread).

WinAmp has been dead for centuries but it's still a perfectly valid player, foobar is being developed by a single dev. Of course I do understand that these people have a lot of auxilary tasks at hand, and "music player" is just a small component of the whole system, but still, it feels bizarre to think you need such an army to maintain a working app.

I love cool features as much as the next guy, but I'm also a fan of coherent products that knows their identity.

[1] the number might be inaccurate but that's beside the point

[albedoa]

> or want to cook before the IPO

What IPO is that?