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> You can't just code the website, zip the code and mail it to the client.

The suggestion that the only alternative to paying $96 million AUD ($62 million USD) for a website is getting one that was "coded, zipped, and mailed" is absurd.

> That's why you have thousands of employees in tech companies with seemingly a simple product that you can fully code in a week(at least the user facing part of it).

I've worked at Salesforce, Facebook, and Adobe. I couldn't code even the thinnest sliver of a vertical slice of any of their products in a week.

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For most software I've seen, it's a handful of (really complicated) requirements that balloon the cost by orders of magnitude.

Making a piece of software? Easy! Integrating with one external provider? Okay... yeah we can do that. Integrating with an arbitrary and ever-growing number of third parties?

Gulp.

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> The suggestion that the only alternative to paying $96 million AUD ($62 million USD) for a website is getting one that was "coded, zipped, and mailed" is absurd.

You can zip and mail every software, given that the mail server(s) accepts the mail, including software that they spent 96$ million on.