App Development

Both have their advantages. Hiring in-house is great for continuity and can be an asset in negotiating an acquisition, but you get more bang for your buck with a good agency team. Agencies can scale up and down as you need and have a bigger roster of technology experts, which speeds up development and increases product agility. Often times we’ll fill the gap until companies find the perfect hire, or we’ll fill the holes when Google poaches your senior software developer.

Well that’s a loaded question. Hiring a full-time developer with mid-level experience will cost you anywhere from 150-250K/year. Seniors regularly earn 400K+ at top startups. The speed with which a developer can implement something grows exponentially with experience.
Most contract developers range from $50-150/hour, depending on their location. We’ve priced ourselves to cost about what a mid-level engineer costs, but deliver a senior-level team with supporting Quality Assurance, architecture, and Scrum management.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO BUILD A WEBSITE OR APP

As long as possible. Let us explain: Building a piece of software is an iterative process. It starts with an assumption about how a user will interact with your product. Once you build the software, one of two things happens. Either you validate your assumptions by seeing the kind of usage that you predicted, or you invalidate it by not getting the kind of usage you wanted. If validated, you’re onto something big and will want to deliver more features, more scalability, and more value to those customers. If invalidated, you’ll want to make adjustments or test new ideas. In either case, a sustained and ongoing approach will yield the best results.

That said, most of our projects run about three months and then either pause for testing and feedback or roll into a secondary phase with enhanced feature sets.