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Thankfully, I can help answer this :) The drilldown is roughly: * $5K Amazon + mLab hosting * $3K extra services (intercom, mailchimp, dropbox, gmail, slack etc) * $1K accounting/payroll overhead * $1K all office expenses * $15K salaries people underestimate the cost of compilations for 10,000 people. We have ~150,000 compilations per month ;)
Have you considered moving the compiler to the client side? In theory you can build a C/C++ and virtually any other language compiler in Javascript. Security restrictions on the browser might be an issue, but i think you should be able to store the binary output in the local storage and upload it to the server.
yeah but we're not crazy enough to do that :P