SaaS businesses not looking good now:
Traditional estimates for this scope of work: Method Estimate COCOMO (lines-based) ~20,000 hours Feature decomposition ~9,000-12,000 hours Industry benchmark 5-6 years solo, 12-15 months with 5 junior engineers Traditional cost $750,000 – $1,500,000
What I spent: $1,800. That’s a 99.8% cost reduction. It’s also not a fair comparison—traditional development wouldn’t produce identical output. But the delta is large enough that precision doesn’t matter.
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