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jabby09 @rrrmmmmm Hey there, I wanted to offer some more detailed insight on just how lean our team is, to help add some perspective from inside the team. We
Hi, I'm Professor A. I'm the designer Jabby mentioned in his post. In my experience, a product of this size normally has a design team of 4. Currently we have only 1. Just me. I'm doing the work of UX Researcher, UX Architect, UI Designer, and Prototyping Engineer.
In my experience, a product of this size and feature set normally has a front-end dev team of 6-10. We have like 2 full timers and maybe 4-5 part time contributors.
In my experience, a product of this size and complexity has a back-end dev team of 5-10. I have no idea what our back end staffing looks like (that's a question for @MarcusAurelius), but I can assure you it's far below industry standard.
We're already running leaner and more efficiently than most other projects I've worked on. And nonetheless shipping features on an unfathomably fast timeline. I've worked on projects with 1/3d of the complexity that took twice as long to ship from inception to MVP. Understand we shipped the Carbonmark MVP in 5 months from blank page to deployment, while being understaffed by industry standards. AND, this same team was shipping improvements to the Protocol simultaneously. I hope I've been able to provide some insight (edited to remove superfluity)