Ryan Carson: Building web applications on a budget
Posted by Tom Moertel Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:25:00 GMT
Via Simon Willison’s post about the 2006 Future of Web Apps Summit, I found notes for Ryan Carson’s talk about building web apps on a budget. In the talk Ryan breaks down the budget for starting up DropSend:
| Budget (£) | Need |
|---|---|
| 5,000 | Branding & UI design |
| 8,500 | Development of web app (developers also given small equity stake) |
| 2,750 | Desktop apps (Windows and Mac) |
| 1,600 | Building XHTML/CSS |
| 500 | Hardware (internal development server) |
| 800 | (per month) hosting and maintenance |
| 2,630 | Legal fees |
| 500 | Accounting fees |
| 500 | Linux-specialist fees |
| 1,950 | Misc. fees (trips, replace broken hardware) |
| 250 | Trademark |
| 200 | Merchant account |
| 500 | Payment processor’s setup fee |
| 25,680 | Total |
That is about $45K in US dollars. In other words, you can launch a new web application for less than a skilled technology worker’s salary. Or, if you are a skilled technology worker, you can do much of the work yourself and launch a new web application for about $25K.
Got an itch to scratch?
readers
I absolutely have an itch to scratch. I’ve been looking high and low for a specific app with specific functionality. None exist that I can find. But I don’t have $50 grand U.S. to spend, either. I’m trying to learn Ruby and Rails right now to develop the app myself. Am I crazy? Can I teach myself enough to make it worth it?