开发商对Twitterrific这样的iPhone应用收费多少?

我想知道这一点,因为我需要这样一个具有相同功能的新社区网站的应用程序。我会Ruby,但没有Objective-C的经验。因此,如果我开始阅读有关iPhone编程的书籍,或者将工作外包给iPhone程序员,对我来说会很有趣。


当前回答

有很多方法可以花更少的钱来开发一个应用程序,但通常情况下,你得到的是一分钱一分货——没有经验的开发人员留给你一堆不可能维护的意大利面条代码,或者有经验的开发人员,你必须跨越文化和语言的鸿沟与他们交流。

开发Twitterific这样的应用程序并不容易。这是一个非常精致的应用程序,非常注重细节,大多数人——实际上是许多开发人员——都没有注意到或意识到背后的努力。你或许可以通过海外开发或“与没有经验的开发者合作”,以3500美元或5000美元的价格编写Twitter iPhone客户端,但你不会因此获得Twitterific的服务,而且花这么多钱你甚至连一个像样的应用程序都做不到。

你可能会花很多时间来管理这个过程,在需求上来回折腾,争取得到你真正想要的东西,而不是他们想给你的东西。

“减价”开发也存在风险,无论是离岸开发还是使用经验不足的开发人员——你很可能最终得到无法使用的东西,或者因为崩溃或行为不稳定而获得1星评级的东西。你可能偶尔会发现开发商的低价宝石,但考虑到目前市场的绝对需求,它们不会长期处于低价状态。

By virtue of my books and blog, people often reach out to me when they need help with their iPhone applications. I get, on average, 4 or 5 inquiries a month from people asking for help fixing applications they had developed either over-seas or by inexperienced developers here in the States. In most cases, I end up having to tell them they'd be better off throwing their code out and starting over with a developer who knows what they're doing rather than trying to fix the code they bought on the cheap. If they insist on trying to "fix" what they have, I decline the work.

其他回答

巴拉克·奥巴马的应用程序从第一个代码到发布花了22天的时间。3名开发者(尽管并非所有人都是全职开发者)。一共10个人。图500-1000工时。承包费率为每小时100-150美元。图50000 - 150000美元。将你的应用程序与奥巴马进行比较。应用和相应的规模。

Appsamuck iPhone教程的目标是31天的教程,最后是31个为iPhone开发的小应用程序,所有源代码都可以下载。他们还提供商业服务来构建应用程序!

如果你想知道你是否能编码,至少你可以下载代码,看看是否有任何东西对你的需求有帮助。另一方面,你也可以从他们那里获得为你开发应用的报价,所以你可以尝试硬币的两面,外包和内部。当然,这也取决于你有多少时间!这当然值得一看!

(好吧,在我上次尝试发布有用的帮助后,我四处寻找!)

以上所提到的价格是你希望支付给美国开发者的价格;然而,我确实认识一些人,他们可以通过离岸开发者以低至4000美元的价格开发自己的应用。

这是一篇来自一个组织的博客文章:http://www.lolerapps.com/why-outsourcing-iphone-apps-was-a-no-brainer-for-us

此外,卡拉·怀特写了一本很棒的电子书,讲述了她把自己的应用程序“内部秘密”外包给iPhone应用程序的过程。她谈到自己是如何得到一笔好交易的,因为她愿意与一个仍在学习iPhone应用程序开发的团队合作。

所以,除了上述开发者所讨论的高价游戏,我们还有其他选择。

I am an account exec at a web and mobile development company and hear this question everyday. Unfortunately, iPhone apps are not cheap. You can expect around $100 per hour if you are staying on US soil. I have seen some offshore Indian developers out there for as low as $20 per hour. It all depends on the number and complexity of the functions you wish the app to perform. Simple one function apps are normally around 4-5k. They are so expensive because you are paying a team of people a healthy hourly wage and any type of raw prototyping, development, and coding takes time. Apps can exceed 60-100k pretty easily. Southwest Airlines making an app with a full ecommerce platform that allows you to buy tickets over your phone is an example. All of that porting into their IT is a big job.

And offshoring the project is definitely not always a better option. If you do so you better know who you are dealing with. Do not get me wrong there folks over there who do a bad ass job for a way better deal, but they are not that easy to find. Those guys could fuck around for 5 months on a simple project that would take 6 weeks here, or just not complete it at all and hand it over half finished. I have seen this scenario many times where we finish the work. The project management becomes a challenge. It can be difficult to communicate exactly what you want the app to do.

iPad版《River of News》花了大约400个小时开发1.0版本,我不知道我的设计师花了多少时间(20-50个?)按照美国的劳动力价格,这至少是4万美元。但这种紧密的发展是可能的,因为它是一个人的操作。当你将编写代码的人和决定产品功能的人分开时,会增加大量的开销。

如果你打算把钱汇到海外,你最好确切地知道你想要什么。由于语言和时差的原因,在你探索可能性的时候很难进行迭代设计。