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> As a sidenote, I'm really struggling to compute how AppGratis has 45 members of staff - whichever way I look at it (developers, sales, accounts) I can't see them needing more than 10.

Care to share your back of the envelope calculations on this...?

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Definitely back of a cigaratte packet. But they're not writing the apps so it's just a front end, website and some discovery code - presumably the infrastructure is cloud managed...

Maybe if I'm a little more realistic: 5 developers, 5 sales people, 3 managers, 3 to configure / manage the infrastructure, 2 to manage admin and accounts. So 18 people ? Struggling to get to 45...

These free app apps sound a bit like a Bubble - aren't they the Groupon, Living Social, etc. of the day ?

EDIT: For translating the languages everyday are we really saying they would be full time members of AppGratis staff - wouldn't this be outsourced somewhere.

How about creating content in a whole pile of languages every day again and again?

I was told they have a lot of business people working to close deals with the apps developers. Also, doesn't he mention they have a 10 people engineering team? And if you had to that all the people who are in different country to meet with developers all around the world, I think that it can add up to 45…

I'm sure most of those people are there to review apps and write recommendations in various languages.

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