Estimating the cost of web applications

Question

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What kind of literature or articles can be read in order to better guide in assessing the cost of web applications and sites?

Answer 1

And the cost depends on you and not on book indicators. If, for example, Lebedev (c) makes a site of the same complexity as you, then his site will cost an order of magnitude (large order) more than yours. Usually the time spent * is calculated by the cost of one working hour (your man hour). And this is a completely different question - how to determine how much "I" will spend time developing (!) _some part_ of the site.
The simplest way - we beat into parts as small as possible, evaluate everything that we did before, estimate by similarity what is possible, the rest at random + some control time if you didn’t guess. Over time, the "eye" is stuffed and the accuracy increases very much.

Answer 2

Set yourself a “salary”, for how much $$$ per month you are ready to work every day for 8 hours.
divide by 160. Write an application. Estimate how many hours you spent on it, actually working hours, minus smoke breaks, lunches, breaks, productive time spent.
Multiply the resulting numbers. Go to any freelance resource, take the average cost of 10 applications similar in complexity and quality, compare with your total. You have the baseline. Draw conclusions and correct in the right direction.

Answer 3

the cost is calculated from three components:
- costly (based on how many man*hours + overhead costs were spent)
- potential income (as a rule, profitable projects are sold for 2-3 annual incomes)
- how much a similar product costs (for example, ready-made prices for business cards from 15 to 30 thousand rubles, showcases - 50 tr)

Answer 4

Проинтервьюировать профессионалов насчет временных затрат. Потом подсчитать стоимость, исходя из цены нормочаса в конкретной сфере, регионе и т.п.
Не забудьте, что необходимо всегда учитывать как минимум три этапа:
1. Проектирование и анализ, от постановки задачи и исследований до ТЗ
2. Программирование
3. Тестирование. Должно выполняться отдельно от программирования, ради обеспечения качества продукта — у разработчиков взгляд всегда замыленный. Только сторонняя точка зрения обеспечит должны скептицизм, скрупулезность и реализм.
4. Опционально — дизайн, в среднем от $300 до $2000, 1-2 недели
Такой подход дает возможность получить цену стабильного и эффективного решения.
Около 70% проектов попадают в такую серединку:
1. $1,000-$5,000, 1 week to 3 months
2. $1,000-$10,000, 1 to 6 months
3. $500-$2,000, 1 week to 1 month
Of these, about half have the following parameters:
1. $1,000, 2 weeks 2. $
5,000, 2 months
3. $500, 2 weeks
It is better to suddenly save money in fact than to make a mistake when planning a budget.

Answer 5

IMHO the main indicator of the cost of the project is its income. The most important thing for the buyer (investor) is how much he can get from “your cow”. This sometimes takes into account the potential for monetization, which varies depending on the audience (best ~35+). You can come up with formulas based on the concept presented by me.

Answer 6

Specifically, I have not seen books on evaluating Internet projects.
There are few in Russian dissertations (separate paragraphs). There are a couple of articles in the “for beginners” format, Google searches them well. But there is no universal recipe.
You can take sensible books on business valuation and turn on the logic to project everything onto the features of Internet projects.
However, business valuation in general is a rather extensive field of knowledge, it is better to consider a specific case.
Traditionally, there are 3 approaches: profitable, costly and comparative. If a new startup, valuation for investment purposes is the real options method.
Specific methods and their ratio in the final cost depend on the characteristics of the object of assessment, the objectives of the assessment.

Answer 7

My investor required me to evaluate DCF simply and without fuss .