Right, I thought that maybe BuiltWith now runs fully automated somehow and the founder doesn't have to interact with his tool in any way while it silently categorizes the internet.
>Given the fact that the platform has over 500,000 total users a month and around 2 million page views, and services between 2,000 and 3,000 paying customers, it’s amazing that the team behind BuiltWith is not bigger. Other than Brewer himself, who codes and manages the entire site, there’s Andrew Rogers, who came on board early as a cofounder but does not work in the business, and a contractor based in the UK that produces content each week for the BuiltWith blog.
So... Contractors aren't staff, according to StartupDaily.
It's really annoying viewing a website (especially one that asks for cash) and not finding a page that talks about the team members behind the project. No accountability, No way I'd sign up
would be curious to get some answers as-to why this wasn't the path to building the website all along?
I mean, the original site was awarded to CGI Inc without any biding process... and they aren't even a US company. Why did we not have US professionals/companies build this thing the first go-round?
I could have imagined a High-Tech All-Stars sort of thing... each major US tech company sends 1 or 2 representatives to collaborate and work together to build this new long-lasting piece of national infrastructure.
It's funny that just today I was visiting Cloudflare Our Team page[1] and I noticed that "our" dear jgrahamc is the only one listed as "Programmer" compared to dozens of XYZ Engineer :)
I suspect the site in question has rather less than a million hits per month, and the development staff is more a week of contractor time every couple of years than a full time team.
This would make it hard to have a continuity of legacy technology devs and make it more likely that it just gets archived by a future team as that's easier than finding the appropriate expertise.
I interviewed there once. Smart people; demanding, too. By that, I mean that I'm sure all of you would find it to be a rewarding and challenging workplace.
They made it clear that there was no VC money. Classic bootstrap. Matt wrote most of the original code base himself. I seem to remember they had at least several employees.
His point is that's insane :). The general consensus on Hacker News is a good brand new start-up is 2-3 people, who are all coders. I tend to agree with this, except for exceptional projects like search engines. Most websites can be handled by a hacker or two at the beginning.
This site could be done by just one mostly incompetent programmer in short order. What the other six guys could possibly be doing is a mystery. They are probably just slowing down the one guy doing any work.
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