> Musk has maintained 95% of functionality while drastically reducing costs.
It's unclear if your intention was to frame this as a "genius business outcome" but this is really a fairly expected outcome given the business parameters.
Outside of adages like "the last 10% of the work takes 90% of the resources", and "to add another 9 of reliability, multiply your budget by 10", you can also intuit this result pretty easily just from your own experience (if you have a background in the field).
If you proposed a project of "build Twitter, but multi-hour downtime is acceptable, key features like logging in with 2FA breaking is acceptable, complying with local laws and paying bills is optional, etc" then you'll find the necessary budget will be much smaller than otherwise.
It's unclear if your intention was to frame this as a "genius business outcome" but this is really a fairly expected outcome given the business parameters. Outside of adages like "the last 10% of the work takes 90% of the resources", and "to add another 9 of reliability, multiply your budget by 10", you can also intuit this result pretty easily just from your own experience (if you have a background in the field). If you proposed a project of "build Twitter, but multi-hour downtime is acceptable, key features like logging in with 2FA breaking is acceptable, complying with local laws and paying bills is optional, etc" then you'll find the necessary budget will be much smaller than otherwise.