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This is great. I see/hear too much of this: "Well, you can run some kind of little site/app for free or around $5-10 month. So, I imagine a much larger and mor
by rbosinger 10y ago
This is great. I see/hear too much of this:
"Well, you can run some kind of little site/app for free or around $5-10 month. So, I imagine a much larger and more serious app would be like... $50/month? At most?"
It seems right. I don't blame them. We know it's not true.
- taneq 10y agoThis is akin to the fact that non-technical people (and, hell, even technical people) have no conception of the costs of software development. "My nephew made a Tetris game in a week, so you should be able to make a billing system in... I dunno, two weeks? It doesn't even need sound effects!"
- dumbguy 10y agoTechnical people? Hell, even us blokes writing the software have no clue. I have 20 years in this, but guestamating costs and timelines? Nope. I'm a little better, but I mean, graduating from t-ball to little league. The only time I hit it on the head, is when I'm doing a project, the type of which, I've done before. And I tend to avoid those.
- taneq 10y agoI still use the rule that my mum taught me: Take your best guess at how long you'll take to do the job, and double it. That's the number you tell your team. Double that, and that's the number you tell the client.