I am also curious about such a very specific list of the costs of running this ecosynthesis because for me 500 bucks a month is a bit, but a lot. In the sense, what exactly does it cost over there?
That the website is up and running automatically, creating accounts and burning fees?
server for several megabytes of code?
or transaction fees for services like paypal mastercard etc?
there are no specific numbers here:
just how much for a day.
To be clear, this isn't an attack, it's just the community should know what it's paying for, right?
Good question, however sometimes in accounting you don’t have to go too granular if the amount is small, example in some countries you don’t need a tax invoice to claim petty expenses under say $500.
This proposal is more like $400 pm at current Blurt price for three services and a curation initiative, I can’t see how that even covers for any decent man hours and is an amount some people spend on their telephone bill for a small business.
I’ve worked in cost estimation many years ago, and to me this is not an unreasonable amount asked, consider the cost of hiring externally to build these services.
That's extremely low. Are they paying themselves at all? I know blockchain devs charge over $150/hour so if they are getting paid that much, that's not even 3 hours of work a month.
but question is... is it essentially at least one hour per month of work?
source
the second thing is that you give rates for top developers. the question is, do you need a guy who charges $ 150 per h? in my opinion, no because it is just things mostly concentrated on making frontend, not the blockchain itself.
@lazerlazer @megadrive
I like having the team local to me. I'm in a large city in the United States so that's causing the price to be higher, I'm sure I can find devs in lesser developed countries for cheaper, but I have the ability to say "Hey, lets talk about how the new feature is going, wanna grab coffee and discuss it?" with more expensive local teams. Plus from what I've seen, the dev teams based in the west seem to have a better understanding than those from the developing world. Its might cost more, but having things done right the first time is worth the extra cost, and it won't my my projects look like a fool's endeavor.
ok but the whole community pays for it and in my opinion there is nothing to keep people from expensive cities when hundreds of thousands of other teams from smaller and cheaper cities and cheaper countries are available.
Well posed question and comment my friend. Nothing wrong with asking questions. Just to be cleat when I mentioned 500 a month, that is combined with @eastmaels dev maintenance proposal #3 on the list. So it's really more like 300 a month a current prices for the ecosysnthesizer stuff......
This is starting look more and more like a negotiation of pay....and that would be a very normal thing to negotiate and discuss. ;)