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The hour estimates are off by at least an order of magnitude. Not included is the infrastructure necessary to ship something like Instagram (testing, monitorin
by rbranson 10y ago
The hour estimates are off by at least an order of magnitude.
Not included is the infrastructure necessary to ship something like Instagram (testing, monitoring, deployment, beta, etc), even if you leave the massive scale of Instagram out of the picture.
Much more significant is that even the relatively rudimentary 2010-era Instagram was the result of thousands of hours of polish and refinement after the initial product was built and released to the public.
There are zero products that go directly from mockups to success. It's relatively easy to knock off something that already exists and is proven to work.
- eunoia 10y ago> There are zero products that go directly from mockups to success. It's relatively easy to knock off something that already exists and is proven to work. Building a knockoff is a relatively linear process. The challenges have already been solved and the work that needs to be done is clear to all involved. Creating a new product is significantly less linear and a lot of budget gets burned because of that. The time of engineers, designers, project managers and QA all cost money. Aligning them to the same (non-obvious) vision therefore costs money. There are additional real costs every time the plan changes even slightly (scope creep, customer feedback, founder waffling, etc). "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy" - Helmuth von Moltke
- freyir 10y ago> The hour estimates are off by at least an order of magnitude Just hire a 10X programmer for $50/hr.