As an veteran IT person with 13 years of Internet development, the question he often faces is, "Why is it so expensive to develop an APP?"
The teams or companies that develop APPs are generally in first- and second-tier cities, with high office costs. The smallest team of an independent APP consists of a front-end engineer, a back-end engineer, and a designer.
Today, from a cost perspective, I will help you analyze the true cost of developing an APP.
First of all, the labor cost. The development of a complete APP involves front-end development and back-end development. In addition to the products that users actually perceive, it is also necessary to develop a set of management backgrounds for operation and maintenance personnel to operate. Generally speaking, it is necessary for this mini team to have more than two years of conservative development experience in order to ensure that the underlying architecture, future expansion, development specifications, etc., do not have too much worries, and facilitate later upgrade development.
In two years or so, the level has reached commercial-level development needs. The average salary for this type of engineer is about 15,000 yuan/month. After accounting for social security, provident funds, and industrial and commercial administrative costs, the average cost is about 20,000 yuan/month. That is, the monthly cost of the mini development team has now cost 60,000 yuan/month.
A commercial product requires a certain amount of business connection, development planning, director-level project supervision, plus administrative costs, office rental costs and other hidden costs. At least 10,000 yuan/month needs to be shared every month. That is, the research and development cost of a single project has reached 7000 yuan/month.
If you need to develop apps for Android and IOS operating systems, you also need to recruit Android and IOS front-end technical engineers separately, and the cost will continue to rise. If H5, WeChat Official Account, and Mini Programs are needed, the cost will continue to rise.
Normally, it takes two months to conservatively calculate an independent APP from the beginning of development to testing to the final launch. If the project is slightly larger or some special requirements need to be implemented with some assistive technologies, the time will continue to be affected.
Starting from scratch to develop the APP and go online, the fixed cost is about 140,000 yuan without major errors. Business services need to make money, even if only 30% of the gross profit is charged, the entire quotation will reach 182,000 yuan. Bonuses for business personnel, project leaders, and technical engineers are not included at this time.
Therefore, a quotation of more than 100,000 yuan for an app can only be regarded as the starting price.
For most people, this price is not easy to accept. How to lower the development price?
The usual approach is to buy a set of ready-made software. For example, if you are a catering and want to build a take-out system by yourself, find a ready-made take-out system developer. This kind of existing system has bypassed the development period. Therefore, it can usually be bought for fifty-eight thousand. One small problem is that you can only buy existing features. If you need to add some functions that you want but are not available in the software, you still need to continue to spend money to do customized upgrade development. This cost will be much higher.
Tens of thousands are still too expensive, is there a cheaper solution?
Cloud application service providers can usually set a price of 30,000 for an APP, and some new cloud application service providers, such as Hengdaoyun, can do about 3,000.
The advantage of Hengdao cloud application service providers relative to custom development is that they have complete functions. Each industry has done in-depth research, so the developed APP has high adaptability.
The above is a professional analysis of the cost of APP development. I hope it will help you to some extent, and I hope it can help you find a way to save money.