How long does it take to write a script?
 

LAMP programming, just one person. Lets say a tube script with pic galleries functionality and a pinterest clone script. This would not have all the bells and whistles like the KVS, lets say, but it would be good so I could sell it and keep expanding it later on. For one person, how much time approximately for each? No previous experience, but good programming skills and a lot of experience with the xxx sites? I would like to get an idea so a good info would be good. A year and a half for each for one person, so three years for the two? Less, more?

Thanks!

a decent programmer and a decent script - 2-3 months

hard to say, but yes, 2 to 3 months

For the typical GFY'er? Google search, view source, save to desktop, open in notepad, delete original script accreditation & copyright, save as clients name_script. 3 hours max. Wait 2 months, charge extra for "difficult script" wait another month, attach to email, send to client :thumbsup

lol that's pretty accurate. :upsidedow

2-3 months sounds about right.

I think 2-3 months will get you a *very* basic script written to your specifications (that has the functionality of most tube scripts from 6-7 years ago), and then you will realize you are missing a lot of functionality you'd need to make it useful. Something that can be resold takes much, much longer to write because you have to appeal to an audience of more then one person. The more you think things through the more complicated it will be as there's a lot of functionality you don't even think about that has to be there, and if you cannot code yourself and you hire a developer to do it - you will run into problems supporting your software after the fact because the developer won't be happy for long having to provide support to 100 people instead of 1 whilst having been paid once.

You'd need a month or more of back and forth with a designer to get all your pages for the project designed + cut into css alone.

@k0nr4d - Thanks for the info, as you are very familiar with that. I am familiar with MySQL, PHP and JavaScript, but I am planning to devote like a year or a year and a half for learning these things (on a good level, like 3+ MySQL books, 10+ php books, 3+ java script books, lets say, or whatever would be needed) and I also want to do the certificates (MySQL <I think that there is one for this), zend and something for java script <I've seen something like this also>). After that I want to get into programming (xxx programming, lamp + javascript) in order to move forward financially with what I am working on. I also want to be able to get a job in programming as all the other things related to websites are very easy at this point (anybody can do it, I would say, but the long-term experience that I have is good). I may be getting some projects from the Internet, or I may try writing the scripts. A pinterest clone could be good, something cheaper than pintastic.com and something that could be possibly used for the xxx sites (good, making sense script, people would be able to add banner ads, and so on). This is more JavaScript related so this may be a harder thing. I should not have a problem with learning and creating something good but getting it all together may take time. With this, if somebody familiar with this would tell me learn this and that, do it this and this way, step A after step B, then after you have AB do the C and so on would make it a lot easier, but I will have to be going over all these aspects by myself (discovering them, testing and so on). Either way, if other people can do it, I can do it too. I am especially interested in "modularity", being able to change particular elements on its own (like you have a skyscraper and you can take out the floor 21, modify it completely and put it back in and it would be working with the rest of the script). Modularity could be - make a tube script and a tgp script (something like you have lets say) and these two could be added toghether and work as one - people could either get the tube script, the tgp script or tube and the tgp combined. And also add the tube part to the tgp one if needed (like making a tube site from your script's tgp site, lets say). Also, I don't want to be wasting time for theorizing without creating anything. I would like to "produce" and have something that I could potentially sell.

As Konrad said once you are done with basic features which will take you a couple of months, you will have to invest a lot more time adding all the small features and tweaking functionalities and market is also changing so you will want to follow trends.

You are motivated which is good, so keep going! :thumbsup

Shoot me an email to [email protected] and I'll give you a free copy of ours script. We developed it but never actually started promoting it. It took some time developing it, but might be a good start for you :thumbsup