If they knew, why then did they need to adjust their fees after initial announcement? Looks like the management is pretty disconnected and desperate to me.

Would you trust a Switzerland based company that uses GCP or AWS?

This was my experience with a well. I was testing with a 36MB dataset and it was choking. The CPU was sitting at 4% usage.

Former founder checking in. Guess I'm still interested in tech, even on holidays.

Do former founders count? ;-)

Most web developers. Webpack + typescript compiling and bundling all the assets.

You want to see a preview as quickly as possible. Best if you can keep a live view on a second monitor.

I doubt much of this is parallelised. Would love to be wrong though!

Cannot speak for everyone, but the builds of my team are heavily parallelized, and we aren't even running a monorepo. For any non-trivial project that has its own somewhat complex build pipeline with many internal dependencies and such, it is pretty much a given.

The only scenario I can foresee where people wouldn't be doing parallel builds is if they are just working on their personal side project with no other people involved, where the need for parallel builds is non-existent either way. You don't want to have one giant monolith project for your whole complex web app, it becomes a nightmare very quickly.

is any of that compute-bound? I would imagine that it's mostly I/O-bound.

My CPU definitely spikes when compiling JS.

I like Repl.it, but recently some of my files got mixed/lost. Be sure to backup. Would be cool if files were automatically mirrored to git.

How will this be monetized? Any pricing/licensing info?

Open-core is free. We'll monetize support & tools we build around it!

Source? Not all loans are bad, it wouldn't make sense to plan on never taking a loan.

I'm pretty sure they blew through most of their estimates.

The projects was always hailed as one of the big crowdfunding break and nothing indicates they considered borrowing to finance the project given the massive amount of money they got and the time estimates they posted.

By all means, check for yourself.

It would be irresponsible to operate entirely off of crowdfunded cash because that money could go a lot farther if properly invested. If you invest, then sometimes you need more cash that you have on hand. You could sell some of your assets, but if you can reliably anticipate they'd sell for significantly more at some future time (relative to interest rates), then you're better off taking a loan and then paying it off when you sell assets later.

Why would you assume a company would never use a loan?

Apple takes out loans and they have billions. There could be tax incentive to take out loans.

Apple takes out loans in the US because their offshore billions are subject to 30ish % corporate tax if repatriated, which is indeed a tax incentive albeit a perverse tax dodging one...