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

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 entrepreneurship is great, all links should be the best. Outsourcing of product technology development is inevitable. That's what we thought at the time. If you have engaged in relevant professional technology, that's fine, but as far as I know, ordinary entrepreneurs inevitably don't understand. So, if you want to make an APP and use it as a starting point, you should at least know who you need.

The Internet is a magical big network, and big data development and software customization are also a model. A detailed quotation is provided here. You can come here if you really want to do it. The starting number of this hand is one, with one, one, three, three and four in the middle. You can find it by combining them in order. What I want to say is, unless you want to do or understand this, if you just join in the fun, don't come.

recruit an army

Including developing new products, architects and back-end developers 1+ Android 1+IOs1+product manager1+front-end development1.

+Designer 1. And you can't guarantee that every position you recruit has qualified people, or that sudden changes lead to stagnation of development and someone must come to rescue it. For employees of start-up companies, job instability is normal. It is estimated that if the product you want is on-line for 3 to 6 months, the general entrepreneurs hope to get the product development on-line as soon as possible.

Step one: recruit people.

For a first-tier and deep city like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, as long as there are enough funds, talents don't have to worry, and resumes will be screened one after another. But in the second and third tier cities like Changzhou, it takes seven months to interview a network front end. What's even more frightening is that we pay for non-professional platforms and friends circle in all kinds of unlimited search situations, such as "hook", "worry-free", "intelligent recruitment" and even "market". It always takes us five months from the first person to recruiting the team.

This is a good experience. First of all, try to find like-minded technical directors, and high salary is a must. However, if the salary is high, he can help you save and avoid detours.

So the cost of the first step is probably-the membership fee of the recruitment platform website: average 1000 yuan/home * 3 = 3000 yuan. Then, suppose you want to recruit in three months.

During this three-month period, the average salary of four people is 80% of the salary during the probation period, and there is no need for five insurances and one gold. Such talents in Changzhou usually need to recruit talents with more than one year's development experience, otherwise the development quality is difficult to guarantee.

The average salary of such talents is about 8000. So you must pay for these three months (8,000 yuan * 80% of the probation period * 4 people * 3 months = 76,800).

Step 2: Website

8-person team, you can choose low-end office space. The office space in Changzhou is about 70 yuan /m2, and it needs about 100 m2, so it is hard to find.

Business incubator is a good choice. In the present context, many incubators are easy to find. The rent of the incubator will be cheaper or even free. Before accepting the entrepreneurial team, an agreement will generally be signed, and the venue needs to be used as a condition for equity replacement or priority investment. As for whether the incubator is cost-effective, it depends on the entrepreneurial team's own weighing. Including water and electricity, property, a month 10000 or so is more economical.

Step 3: Equipment

The price of an ordinary ergonomic chair is about 150 yuan. If you don't buy an engineering chair, you can use an ordinary chair instead. In addition to the fixed cost of tables, tables and chairs need to be around 200 yuan. These expenses are paid in one lump sum. Can 6000 RMB be done?

Together with designers and Cheng's computers, the configuration is 4,000 computers, with a total of 7 computers, including 1 IOS machine. To develop a mobile APP, you need to provide a prototype. Just use the second-hand system * * * Four Android systems, one is 2000 yuan, and four Apple systems are 3500 yuan.

Ok, let's calculate 6000 yuan +4000 yuan * 7+2000 yuan * 4+3500 * 4 = 56000 yuan.

Step 4: Tools go hand in hand and officially start.

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

This stage will take about two weeks. After careful analysis, we will figure out the positioning of the product and the requirements of the first stage. In the meantime, architects can start to conceive the technical architecture of the product, which has not yet officially started. After product positioning and pre-demand determination, it is necessary to conceive product name, demand investigation, competitive product investigation and analysis, register domain name, purchase server and peripheral basic capabilities (such as CDN storage, SMS service, message push, etc. ), trademarks (unregistered trademarks, many teams suffer greatly), registered domain names, and designed logo. At this stage, it will take at least one week if the plan and product requirements and positioning are not changed. At this time, the prototype of the product and the prototype of the technical architecture will be presented, and you can basically enter the real work.

Assuming that you don't need to spend a lot of money to buy a domain name, the total annual cost is 15000 yuan.

SMS is around 2000, and the server 1000 is a month. Registered domain names and other trademarks 2000. Trademark, software, LOGO one-time investment of about 1 ten thousand yuan.

Step 5: Product version planning and architecture design.

After everything seems to be ready, the product begins to sort out the requirements and plan the version according to the priority of the requirements. According to the product development direction, architects begin to enter the development environment, production environment deployment and basic code research and development stage.

It must be mentioned that there are two common ways to realize the function of APP: native and webview.

The advantages and disadvantages of these two methods are beyond the scope of this paper. Usually, in order to ensure the experience, the native way is the main way, supplemented by webview. To develop in a native way, version 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). IOS application

The application review cycle of the store is very long. You must plan the functions of the next few small and medium-sized versions in advance to avoid confusion;

Secondly, when your application is installed on the user's mobile phone, you definitely want him to run the latest version most of the time. If your version is updated too frequently, users will be annoyed.

It seems that this process is going well. After defining the product concept, the product manager began to prepare the product V 1.0 plan.

New products from scratch:

(1) product official website. Product official website is the representative of products, companies and teams. Users can know your positioning and product features at the first time after entering the website, that is, what kind of people are doing and what kind of problems are solved.

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

(3) seed users. You must consider where the first seed users come from, how to organize and how to manage them. They are the first people to inspect your products, which is very important for verifying product location, finding product problems and improving 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 consider the development direction after product release.

(5)UI design and interactive standard formulation. There is no guarantee that once the product is released, the user interface and interaction will definitely bring surprises to users, but there is no problem in ensuring the consistency of the user interface/interaction.

(6) Background management system. Whether it is viewing data or content management, the back-end management system can provide effective help for your work, and no one can be less.

Application. This is the top priority of your product, please pay close attention.

If all goes well, the first version of your application should have the first prototype within three to six months.

Internal testing, running-in stage

At this stage, you need to keep close communication with design, R&D and seed users, so as to continuously collect, find, optimize and solve problems. In the meantime, you may need to release 1-3 beta sub-versions. At the same time, you must find ways to keep the enthusiasm and cooperation of seed users. This is an arduous task, and whoever does it knows.

Release stage

At the time of release, the cost of channel promotion or advertising is not calculated, iOS APP.

The listing of a store requires registering a developer account and purchasing a certificate. It also costs a certain amount of money, not much, only 99 dollars a year.

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

Within six months, an application can run quickly from scratch. Then this whole step. It may be the biggest personnel cost, so the average salary of eight people is 8K. There are other advantages to being eager to recruit people.

Five insurances and one gold, the company should subsidize each person about 1 100 yuan. Thirteen salaries, equivalent to an additional monthly increase of 65,438 yuan+0,000 yuan. The team just recruited and didn't have time to run. It needs to deliver the products as soon as possible, and it must work overtime. Overtime requires overtime pay. Work overtime for 200 days on weekends.

In this way, the average overtime pay per person is 500. In the past seven months, I have to have a holiday and need holiday benefits. There is usually a team building cost. Per capita monthly income 100 yuan.

Ok, then a person's average monthly expenditure is (8000+1100+1000+200+500+100 =10900).

I assume that after the recruitment is completed, the development will go online in only 4 months (still relatively fast). That is (10900 * 4 months * 8 people =

348800 yuan). It's nothing. Think about it, no one can make money from the Internet in the first place. These fixed personnel expenses are 87,200 yuan per month.

Finally, if you want to start your own business, set up a technical team, from recruiting people to producing products. 3 months for recruitment and 4 months for production. Total * * * Calculate the total cost for 7 months as follows:

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

Rent for water and electricity: 10000/ month * 7 months = 70,000.

Office equipment: 56,000 yuan

Trademark and other registration servers: 20,000 yuan

Total: 425600+70000+56000+10000 = 571600 yuan.

You haven't counted marketers, financial personnel and marketing promotion personnel here. In addition, if you only calculate the official development cycle of 4 months, your monthly fixed technician cost is 87,200.

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

If you find another mature team or company to do this, it will be on the shelves within 4 months, and the cost is about 87200 * 4 =

348,800 yuan However, companies that can usually outsource have already done many types of work, and it is not too expensive to do some existing template development.

Hard-working entrepreneurs. If you are confident and have at least one million dollars in your pocket, then you can consider setting up your own technical team.

But remember, in the nine months after nine months, whether it is financing or profit. If you only have hundreds of thousands of young people and the product profit is in the late stage, then it is best to strictly choose outsourcing companies and gradually improve the contract.