How much does it cost for a software company to make an APP?

First of all, if you are also a creator and full of passion, then the product must be developed by yourself. Because the entrepreneurial spirit is great, all links should be the best. It would be unsafe to hand over product technology development to outsourcing. At that time, we thought so too. It’s okay if you have engaged in related professional technologies, but as far as I know, ordinary entrepreneurs will inevitably not understand it. So if you want to make an APP and use it as an entry point, you need to at least know who is required.

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Recruiting troops

Including developing new products, architects and back-end development 1 Android 1 iOS development 1 product manager 1 front-end development 1

1 designer . And you can't guarantee that every position you recruit will have qualified people, or if sudden changes cause development to stagnate, someone must be able to rescue it. It’s normal for startup employees to experience job insecurity. It is estimated that the product you want will take 3 to 6 months to launch. Most entrepreneurs want to launch product development as quickly as possible

Step one: Recruit people

For first-tier deep cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, as long as there are sufficient funds, talents do not have to worry, and their resumes will be screened one after another. But in second- and third-tier cities like Changzhou, recruiting a network front-end can take seven months of interviews. What’s even more frightening is that in various unlimited search situations, we pay for non-professional platforms and friend circles, such as “hook up”, “no worries”, “smart recruitment” and even “catch up”. From the first person to recruiting the team, it took us a total of 5 months.

This is a relatively good experience. First of all, we must try our best to find like-minded technical supervisors, and high salaries are necessary. However, if the salary is high, he can help you save and avoid detours.

Therefore, the cost of the first step is probably - the membership fee of the recruitment platform website: an average of 1,000 yuan/family * 3 = 3,000 yuan. Then, let's say you want to recruit in 3 months.

In these three months, an average of 4 people's wages will be paid, 80% of the salary will be calculated during the probation period, and five insurances and one housing fund are not required. Such talents in Changzhou usually need to recruit talents with more than one year of development experience, otherwise the quality of development will be difficult to guarantee.

The average salary for such talents is about 8,000. Therefore, you must pay for these three months (8000 yuan * 80 of the trial period * 4 people * 3 months = 76800).

Step 2: Venue

A team of 8 people can choose between low-end and mid-range office spaces. Such office space in Changzhou is about 70 yuan/m2 and requires about 100 square meters, which is not very easy to find.

Entrepreneurship incubator is a very good choice. In the current general context, there are many incubators and it is easy to find them. The rent of the incubator will be relatively cheap or even free. Before accepting the entrepreneurial team, an agreement will usually be signed, which requires the site as a condition for equity exchange or priority investment rights. As for whether the incubator is cost-effective, it is up to the entrepreneurial team to weigh it themselves. Including water, electricity and property, around 10,000 a month is considered relatively economical.

Step 3: Equipment

The price of an ordinary ergonomic chair is about 150 yuan. If you don't buy a project chair, you can use a regular chair instead. In addition to the fixed cost of the table, the table and chairs will cost around 200.

These fees are paid in one lump sum, so it can be done with 6,000 yuan.

Including the designer and programmer computers, the configuration is 4,000 units, totaling seven, including one IOS computer. tower. To develop a mobile app, you need to provide a prototype mockup. Just use a second-hand system. ***There are four Android systems, one for 2,000 yuan, and four Apple systems, one for 3,500 yuan.

Okay, let’s calculate 6,000 yuan 4,000 yuan * 7 2,000 yuan * 4 3,500 * 4 = 56,000 yuan

Step 4: Tools go hand in hand and officially start

Before developing an APP, you already know what kind of APP software you want to make, but usually you don’t know what you want to do, what you need, and what the product positioning is. At this time, the product manager needs to go out and communicate with the boss to solve the needs and find the product positioning.

This stage will take about two weeks. After careful analysis, the product positioning and first-phase demand will be clearly thought out. During this period, architects can begin to conceive of the technical architecture of the product, but construction has not officially started yet. After the product positioning and early needs are determined, it is necessary to conceive the product name, demand research, competitive product research and analysis, register domain names, purchase servers and peripheral basic capabilities (such as CDN storage, SMS service, message push, etc.), trademarks (unregistered trademarks) , many teams have suffered this loss), rushing to register domain names and design logos. This stage will take at least a week if the plan is not changed midway and the product requirements and positioning are not changed. At this time, the prototype of the product and the rudiment of the technical architecture are also presented, and it is basically ready for real work.

Assuming in this step that you do not need to spend a lot of money to purchase a domain name, the total cost is calculated to be 15,000 yuan per year.

SMS is about 2,000, and server is 1,000 per month. Registering a domain name and other trademarks costs 2,000 each. The one-time investment for trademark, soft copy, and LOGO is about 10,000 yuan

Step 5: Product version planning, architecture design

Seems like everything After everything is ready, the product begins to organize the requirements and plan the version according to the priority of the requirements. According to the product's development direction, the architect begins to enter the development environment, production environment deployment, and basic code research and development stages.

It must be mentioned that the two more common ways to implement functions in APPs are native and webview

. The advantages and disadvantages of these two methods are beyond the scope of this article. Usually, in order to ensure the experience, the native method is the main method and the webview method is supplemented. When developing in a native way, versioning is particularly important.

First, after the APP is developed, you need to put it in the APP store (assuming we only have iOS and Android). The iOS App

App review cycle is very long. You have to pre-plan the features for the next few small and medium-sized versions so you don't get stuck;

Secondly, when your app is installed on a user's phone, you definitely want him to be running most of the time Latest version. If your version is updated too frequently, users will get annoyed.

It seems that the process went smoothly. After the product manager clarifies the product idea, he begins to prepare the product V1.0 plan.

The work of developing new products from scratch:

(1) Product official website. The official product website is a representative of the product, company and team. After entering the website, users can quickly understand your positioning and product features, that is, what kind of people are solving what kind of problems and what kind of things are being done.

(2)User Agreement. Yes, if users want to register and use your product, they must draft a user agreement and communicate and adjust it with a lawyer or legal affairs.

(3) Seed users. You have to consider where your first seed users will come from, how they will be organized, and how you will manage them. They are the first people to inspect your product, which is important for verifying product placement, identifying product issues, and improving the product experience.

(4) Basic data reporting plan. Without knowing anything about user behavior, you need to know what data you need to collect to optimize and adjust product design, and to consider the direction of your product after launch.

(5) UI design and interaction standard formulation. There is no guarantee that the user interface and interactions of your product will wow users once released, but you must ensure that there are no issues with the consistency of the user interface/interactions.

(6)Backend management system. Whether it is viewing data or content management, the back-end management system can provide effective help for your work, and it is a must.

(7)APP. This is a top priority for your product, so pay close attention to it.

If all goes well, after 3 to 6 months, the first version of your application should have the first prototype.

Internal testing, running-in stage

In this stage, you need to maintain close communication with design, R&D and seed users to continuously collect problems, discover problems, optimize and solve problems. During this time, you may need to release 1-3 sub-beta versions. At the same time, you must find ways to keep seed users active and cooperative. This is an arduous task, who knows who is doing it

Release stage

At the time of release, without counting the cost of channel promotion or advertising, iOS APP

< The listing of p>Store requires registering a developer account and purchasing a certificate. It also costs some money, not much, only $99 per year.

If you want to do more and find a security team to help you with a security assessment, you will have to spend some money here, which is not included here. As for load balancing and acceleration technology, your APP has just been launched and should not be used.

In 6 months, an application was running very quickly from scratch. And then this whole step. Probably the biggest personnel cost, so the average salary for 8 people is 8K. Generally, if you are in a hurry to recruit people, you will be provided with other benefits.

For five insurances and one fund, the company must subsidize about 1,100 yuan per person. Thirteenth salary is equivalent to an additional RMB 1,000 per month. The team was just recruited but not running in a timely manner so the product needed to be delivered as quickly as possible and overtime would definitely have to be worked. Overtime work requires overtime pay. Weekend overtime is 200 days.

In this way, the average overtime wage per person is 500. During the nearly 7 months, vacation must be taken and vacation benefits are also required. There usually have to be team building costs. The average per capita monthly charge is 100 yuan more.

Okay, then the average monthly cost of a person is (8000 1100 1000 200 500 100 = 10900)

I assume that after the recruitment is completed, the development only took 4 months. Can be brought online (which is still relatively quick). That is (10,900 * 4 months * 8 people =

348,800 yuan). This is nothing. Think about it, no one can make money from the Internet at the beginning. Calculating these fixed personnel expenses is 87,200 yuan per month.

Finally, if you want to start your own business and build a technical team, from recruiting people to producing products. It takes ***3 months to recruit people and 4 months to produce. The total *** calculated for 7 months is:

Employee cost: 76,800 yuan (recruitment period) 348,800 (formal stage) = 425,600

Utilities, electricity, rent: 10,000 / Month * 7 months = 70,000

Office equipment: 56,000 yuan

Trademark and other registration servers: 20,000 yuan

Total: 425,600 70,000 56,000 10,000 = 571,600 yuan

You have not counted marketing personnel, financial personnel, and marketing promotion personnel here. In addition, only counting the official development cycle of 4 months, your monthly fixed technical personnel cost is 87,200.

So when someone asks you how much it costs to build a team to make an app, you can answer with a simpler app. In a tier 2.5 city like Changzhou, the first version will start from scratch within six months, with at least 600,000 people. If it is a first-tier city, it will be at least one million.

If you look for other mature teams or companies to do this, they will be on the shelves within 4 months, and their cost will be about 87200 * 4 =

348800 yuan. However, often the companies that can be outsourced already do many types of work, and it doesn't cost too much to do some existing template development.

Entrepreneurs who work so hard. If you are confident and have at least a million in your pocket, then you can consider building your own technical team.

But remember, in 9 months after 9 months, whether it's financing or profitability. If you only have a few hundred thousand young people, and the profitability of your product is at an advanced stage, it is best to strictly choose an outsourcing company and gradually improve the contract.