Ryan Carson: Building web applications on a budget

Tom Moertel — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:25:00 -0500

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?

"Ryan Carson: Building web applications on a budget" by Andrew

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:04:08 -0400

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?

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