Some of these things raise an eyebrow and I'd like them further broken down (but in the mean time, I'm still donating):
* $19 million for 50 staff
- That's $338k/head on average. At face value for a nonprofit, I'd like these costs broke down as this seems excessive. There is far cheaper IT labor available outside SV.
* 20 petabytes per year of bandwidth, or 20 million gigabytes, to enable voice and video calling alone, which comes to $1.7 million a year
- I'd drop these features if possible, or give them to donors.
* Storage: $1.3m, Servers: $2.9m
- I was actually expecting this to be far higher
- Long term storage should probably be donor-only
- Servers could likely be optimized by going hybrid cloud with colocation and owning own hardware, but again, was surprised how "little" they're spending on this.
* Sms registration fees: $6m
- Stop contributing and supporting the "Your phone number is your identity" problem.
- Move towards helping educating society and establishing a set of encryption keys as their long term identity
It's easy to criticize from the bleachers. Still thankful for the app and I'll continue to donate.
* $19 million for 50 staff
* 20 petabytes per year of bandwidth, or 20 million gigabytes, to enable voice and video calling alone, which comes to $1.7 million a year * Storage: $1.3m, Servers: $2.9m * Sms registration fees: $6m It's easy to criticize from the bleachers. Still thankful for the app and I'll continue to donate.