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I'm the dumbfuck that originally posted the 160 hours number. The only thing I'll say in my defence is that it was written in October 2008, two years ago. It ce

I'm the dumbfuck that originally posted the 160 hours number. The only thing I'll say in my defence is that it was written in October 2008, two years ago. It certainly didn't take into consideration the many hours of development that have been done since, and the hourly rate was based on actual searches I did on freelancer sites. I wasn't actually high. Just stupid. If there were a way to 'unaccept' an answer I'd have done so long ago. The user 'schwa' corrected me long before chockenberry noticed.

flatline 16y ago
Wow, I hadn't noticed the time difference between the original thread and Chris's reply, thanks for pointing that out. I honestly don't think your estimate (I gathered that two months was more realistic) was that bad to get a first cut of a simple app out the door. I have never seen Twitterific but to your point it looks like it went through a fair number of iterations over the course of several years, plus a ton of design work, which you were not trying to account for.