Markus Frind: ...we will be building up a large team of 20 to 30 employees over the next few months.
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Good luck to Markus. I'd be cautious with the idea of going from one person shop to hiring dozens of people quickly.
all the great hackers are lining up for this one.
"... As a result we will be building up a large team of 20 to 30 employees over the next few months. ..."
Missed that one, why so large?
"... Having built systems that take orders and credit card transactions previously is a strong plus ..."
MS for RT systems. Do-able but not pretty.
The design is even worse and sometimes the site's UI doesn't even function. The girls are much uglier/less successful than match.com or OKCupid too, there's probably some explanation for that.
Same here. The cost alone would be one hurdle. The other is access to tools, languages, code and fixes, resouces. It's a matter of taste I guess.
Hmm. Yeah, he's processing millions and millions of requests a day off of one web server. I really don't think that (ahem) great hackers like having the power of MSFT technology thrust in their face.
I wouldn't say It's not possible, just painful. Firstly there's the cost (os, tools, languages) and externalities (bugs, slow code updates). I don't know if I could face going to work using such a crappy environment again.
As for the number of transactions, you cannot deny this. The real test will be adding the financial transactions and converting hits to dollars. I like people succeeding - it just makes me wince (personal prejudice) thinking of the technology choice.
20 employees wouldn't be completely unreasonable. Not all of them would be straight up coders, of course. Then again, with the traffic numbers he claims, I think he could justify having half the engineering power as someone like Facebook.
I'd agree with this bit, but it's the timing.
It really depends on exit strategy. I'm not sure at what stage the coy. is at - it hasn't been sold, has it received funding? Investing in 30 extra bodies is a lot. It takes a long time to employee quality people and is certainly against grain. One hiccup in the market and could be a Ev of Prya (Blogger).