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Originally Posted by Ferus
Lets entertain that thought for a second, and say you want build a MVP clone of OF, and you want to aim for a application maturity level 2.. not 3 or 4, just a easy 2.
From the first meeting with the developer and the first fireframe on a whiteboard/sprint-overview, lets say they can do it in 3 months, and calculate based on that
2 developers
1 project manager (25% time)
1 UX person
160 hours each month normal EU time: = 1560 hours
That is first production-ready version, then how much do you think they need to work on over the next year? 50-80 hours a month(one person). That is another 600-800 hours easily
So that is around 2000 hours the first year. Lets say they use cheap east-Europe (good standard) developers at around €50/hours = €100.000,-
And that is for a site that dont even come close to the capacity and function-level of OF
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Yeah, you are probably right, i just guessed very roughly.
The thing is: when someone asks in public, the chances of that person actually following through with this are zero anyways.
And those who have the knowledge to turn this into profit know that coding is only a small part of the overall project and just simply have it built without making much fuss about it.