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Thanks for the estimate. I figured it would take a team of 50 programmers @ $100k/yr salary 2 years to complete it (which is how long i want to give it), which would equal a total cost of $10m, which i imagine would be reasonable considering it wouldnt take much to recoup.

Seriously, it would only take like 5 people to write a program like flame from scratch?

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Well, you can do it with only 1. But it would him/her several years and a LOT of effort. I think parent was saying that to get a "functional" team, a minimum of 5 would be needed.

Even with the 5 people, I think the estimate of 1 year is a bit extreme. Unless you get brilliant programmers that can work together really well, I'd imagine they would need more time than that.

I don't know what the product is, but to be able to compete with a mature product(even a bad one) takes a lot of time and energy. It all depends on what you want version 1.0 to do.

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