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Tl;Dr: Client has no idea how much development costs

(Un)potential client has been asking to develop an AV solution for Android phones to sell on the play store. Problem is I know they're cheap fucks and won't pay for a proper development cycle. Just for an exercise I put together the minimum cost they are looking at if they cut back on a lot of things and purchase lots of things off the shelf and gave them a bare minimum cost of £4350. Which is utterly fucking ridiculous to think you could develop something even half decent for that. I mean we all know that AV is a bit of a joke for any serious threat, it just protects from the billions of pests in cyberspace, but I mean come on.

Anyway, they are freaking out because apparently that's a lot. Out of interest, what would be your ballpark figures for this.

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  • 6
    5y
    £50,000
  • 3
    5y
    your hourly rate mulipied by time needed to build the app?

    so if your rate would be hundert and twenty pounds an hour (£120/h : £4350) then you would need to finish the app within 37 hours or 1 work week.
  • 2
    5y
    A very barebone av would take about 3 months, so just multiply it with an hourly rate * 1.5
  • 0
    5y
    @coolboole better still

    for file in files:
    sendToVirusTotal(file)
  • 0
    5y
    No way. As said above, that needs to be completed in a working week which is never going to happen.

    I would factor that by 10 as a minimum.
  • 0
    5y
    av = antivirus? oh... 😲

    There are multi million dollar companies with a lot bright minds that work 24/7 to find malicious software. Still their software works only half the time and mostly for old threats. So how do you think you could do an anti virus software for £4350 that isn't remotely useless?
  • 1
    5y
    @heyheni exactly. Just shows how thick they are. That price is based on buying a load of shit premade components online.
  • 0
    2y
    How to develop the right pricing strategy for our product. We thought about paying customers for our service on a monthly basis. But we are going to introduce additional features, how to deal with them.
  • 0
    2y
    You can set several different tariffs, which will include different features. The more features are, the more expensive the tariff is. If you do not understand how best to do this, I would recommend that you contact the pricing company "Software Pricing Partners" https://softwarepricing.com/ for services. They should develop the right strategy for you and give you a lot of tips. They helped us a lot, we set a high price and the customers agreed with it.
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