Ask HN: Time Taken to Release a Feature

[thunga]

How much time does it take for you to launch an end to end feature?

My current rule of thumb is - 8 to 10 weeks in a startup - 6 to 8 months in FAANG

Assumptions - Internet/App based consumer product - End to end feature & not product improvements

[scanny]

The first question is what do you constitute as a feature?

Surely the scope of work is going to vary massively that is would make it really hard to answer your question accurately.

Do you have an example of what you consider a feature and how long it has taken you?

In my case, I work in online mapping, and developing a feature which allows people to convert between projected coordinate systems when they download data took about 5 days to complete and sat in dev and uat whilst the entire project was being worked on.

[muzani]

End to end meaning?

Solo, I've built a logistic management & tracking system in a day, from scratch. It was ugly and unstable, but never dropped the ball. I only worked that fast because we had more customers than was manageable manually. Never replicated that feat.

As a team of 5, the most ambitious was a chat feature done in 2 months. Built on a paid platform, of course, but a lot of it had to be custom integrated, like UI, offline storage, and multiple users managing a company account.

[lettergram]

It really depends....

Last night one of my customers mentioned they wanted something new on the site. I'm pushing it live tonight.

Truly it's dependent on what you mean by features, project complexity, team, etc.

[psv1]

Wouldn't this be so dependent on the feature, product, team and company that any answer would be useless because it's too specific? Or am I missing something?

[el_dev_hell]

Anywhere from a day to a year.

The proverbial length of a piece of string.

[byoung2]

My team just launched a new feature end to end in 8 weeks + 2 weeks of A/B testing

[segmondy]

1hr to 1 week. Doesn't matter if it's a startup or an enterprise.

[simplecomplex]

Either two weeks or six weeks, for small and large batches.