Already answered this, but I'll comment because you bothered to. Sure :) We're basicly two founders that have done most of the design and project management of the site. In addition, we've outsourced some design and all of the programming to Ukraine, including the mobile version. The outsourced development itself runs into the 100k's over the stretch of 1.5 years, and in addition, we've done some marketing (40-50k) and had some administrative costs (lawyers, offices, etc.). I don't have an exact sum, but it's anywhere from 190-220k.
I'm a designer and previous developer myself, but the site is actually quite broad. There is a lot more than meets the eye, such as:
- an administration area
- caching and indexing mechanisms
- web scraping robots
- various other agents and robots to update user feeds, top lists, etc.
- algorithms to calculate relevance and weight for the items on each list
- Wordpress plugins, possibility to embed lists, etc.
...and so forth. It's a pretty big site.
It's funny to see many people giving their "expert" opinion about how expensive your web site was, just by looking the design. It is very easy to say when:
1. You are not the one developing the site, thus You have no commitment.
2. You ignore all the other project requirements (already mentioned above) just by looking to the presentation layer.
If the project was too expensive, blame also the founders , which may have asked for a MVP bigger then the necessary.
It looks like you're a Norwegian company? Surely Norway has programmers who can handle this at equal or surpassing quality for less money? What was your rationale for outsourcing to begin with?
stormen|11 years ago
I'm a designer and previous developer myself, but the site is actually quite broad. There is a lot more than meets the eye, such as: - an administration area - caching and indexing mechanisms - web scraping robots - various other agents and robots to update user feeds, top lists, etc. - algorithms to calculate relevance and weight for the items on each list - Wordpress plugins, possibility to embed lists, etc. ...and so forth. It's a pretty big site.
codextremist|11 years ago
If the project was too expensive, blame also the founders , which may have asked for a MVP bigger then the necessary.
korzun|11 years ago
Just a general observation, I don't know much about your architecture.
krapp|11 years ago