What resources are needed to develop an application?

Question

Android

Good afternoon everyone!
I have an idea for an application, but since I have absolutely no knowledge in application development, I have many questions in order to understand how much resources are needed to create an application.

I will describe some details of my idea:
This is a social. network where the user has a personal page.
Of the user's capabilities, there are functions: posting, following, direct message and share & repost (initially).
The user has a personal profile with his posts, a direct message with questions about posts, and a feed with posts of people he subscribes to.

Application on Android & iOS + server side.

How many specialists are needed?
How much time will it take?
What might be the costs?
How to coordinate a team and arrange well-coordinated work of programmers from different areas?

Answer 1

Let's say that three developers (android + ios + back) will make an MVP for you in a month...
Senier costs about 200k/month.
It turns out that in a month you need 600tr only for development.
Further, if something works out, take a tester and an admin (devops) + another 300.
It turns out that the minimum development team will cost from 1 million / month, excluding managers and the web front.
Add here the costs of infrastructure, licenses, taxes...
In terms of time:
I believe that an MVP can be done in a month, a more or less suitable project is 6-9 months.

Answer 2

You have been contacted for prices. Although it looks like they were pulled up about 1.5 times.
I'll go over the idea. Make a plan for who this network is for, why it attracts people, what these people do not like in the current ones, how you will make money. Perhaps this is some kind of niche network, for example, a farmer's network. Or a chain of dentists.

Answer 3

The salaries given above are in the hands of the programmer, but taxes and other overhead costs are completely forgotten, it can be simply calculated as another 50% on top. Business taxes also need to be considered.
The minimum team to at least make something work:
1 Android
programmer 1 iOS
programmer 1 back -end programmer
1 designer
1 project manager who will coordinate the team
Total offhand about 1.5 million per month, including insurance premiums and taxes, rather 2 million.
Do not forget about vacations, hired people do not work 24/7.
We will calculate BYOD for development hardware, but in general it is desirable to give everyone a decent laptop.
In many respects, taking into account the current situation with the pandemic, people will work from home, but in any case, you will need an office, legal entity and accounting (another 100-200 thousand / month)
Next will be the calculation of server capacities, and they are very expensive for a social network, while a more or less real load will easily take a million dollars a month, but it is difficult to calculate without knowing the expected load. To start, you will need at least a couple of dedicated servers in a decent data center, offhand from 50 thousand / month.
If the desire to work has not disappeared and there is an understanding of the business model of the social network that pays for all these costs (or an investor who is ready to finance the first year of the project), write, I can help a little with a consultation.

Answer 4

Your idea needs a million bucks and good luck. Chances are 1 in 1000 that you will go to zero.