Support for hundreds of thousands of bands and their bank payouts, and millions of customers. (They also sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and t-shirts.)
Edit: they reportedly had a good editorial team, but I'm not sure how many people you need for that part.
Why do you think it's a good thing for companies to run at maximum efficiency? Have some slack, spread the knowledge around, let people go on vacation, have a bench, have replacements. Have a world that's more than capital owners and slaves.
It's a SaaS. That's a 10 person team at maximum efficiency. They could be a lifestyle business with 30. They've still got 50% more headcount to reduce.
100 person companies are really small. Some local car dealerships have 100 employees. I think these layoffs are more about redundancy at the buyer than the people not being useful at Bandcamp probably.
> It's a SaaS. That's a 10 person team at maximum efficiency.
This kind of sounds like you think every SaaS business has the same staffing requirements. That's a very strange claim.
A global, international marketplace with about 100,000 sales totalling $3.5 million day. If you can swing serving that from a couple hundred petabytes in your living room then go ahead.
Sounds like you can do it better. Why not whip something up this weekend? Seems like an opportune time to compete with Bandcamp.