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Great job of getting to MVP on the cheap! But it seems like a budget of $10K or so would only work for relatively simple apps. Doing something like Dropbox, 28
by nroach 16y ago
Great job of getting to MVP on the cheap! But it seems like a budget of $10K or so would only work for relatively simple apps. Doing something like Dropbox, 280Atlas, or FlightCaster (probably) would take significantly more money.
Any suggestions for how you'd proceed if you knew up front that you were facing a much longer development cycle?
- stefanobernardi 16y agoI'm not the founder, but IMHO such a project can not be developed on your spare time. I guess the process that Marco used can be replicated for simple freemium saas web apps and mobile applications. 280North and Dropbox are developing brand new and break-trough technology; they need a full team of experienced hackers, loads of money and a grand vision to realize that. Of course the payoff is different..
- saikat 16y ago280North at least develops all their technology in-house (and it's only 3 hackers). I bet most of their costs are living expenses for the founders.
- keefe 16y agolearn to write code competently or partner with a competent engineer
- magno 16y agoYou are right, tipsandtrip is a relatively simple project (web + api + iphone) but I think that a similar process can be used also on larger project to build a MVP that can be launched and shown to investors. Better to have something working to show than a couple dozen of slides ;-)