The suggestion that the only alternative to paying $96 million AUD ($62 million USD) for a website is getting one that was "coded, zipped, and mailed" is absurd.
> That's why you have thousands of employees in tech companies with seemingly a simple product that you can fully code in a week(at least the user facing part of it).
I've worked at Salesforce, Facebook, and Adobe. I couldn't code even the thinnest sliver of a vertical slice of any of their products in a week.
Making a piece of software? Easy! Integrating with one external provider? Okay... yeah we can do that. Integrating with an arbitrary and ever-growing number of third parties?
Gulp.
You can zip and mail every software, given that the mail server(s) accepts the mail, including software that they spent 96$ million on.
This clashes with my experience; At least in my field....PM can basically only come from an individual who has architecture + development experience and thus is higher paid than any dev who is working on their product.
Maybe I need a different job.
You can't just code the website, zip the code and mail it to the client. They have many stakeholders like this person needs to be able to show this that persin needs to be able to access this etc because they are running a business or service with than many people. Then you will have requirements like blind people should be able to use that and someone should be able to monitor all that. For each complication you will use specialized tools and do integration, i.e. Adobe will sell you one thing Oracle will sell you another thing and you will have to have people overseeing all these integrations and requirements etc.
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).