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