Thoughts 17 Feb 2007 06:08 pm
How to be a millionaire…NOT
A friend has a program he’s written and now he thinks he’s going to be a millionaire, he even told one of the people he works with that he’ll be there in a just few months.
He plans on charging his customers $25 per month for unlimited access.
At $25 the math is simple.
4×25=$100
40×25=1000
400×25=10,000
4000×25=100,000
40,000×25=$1,000,000
To bring in $1,000,000 a year, you divide 40,000 $25 checks by 12 months, giving you the required number of, 3,333 paying customers every month.
This means the equipment, and the fiber coming in, have to be able to deal with the potential of 3k simultainious hits. This is assuming that none of the customers have an office with more than one user.
Can you say bandwidth?
He currently has access to a T1, (1.5 up/down, on copper) that’s in use by an existing company, that should handle 3,000 concurrent connections. No,….really, I mean it, would I lie?
Oh yeah, he wants to run his proggy off an M$ access database, you know, that wonderfully robust freeby, that comes with Office.
And they say programmers? have no sense of humor.