英语学习：原来开发一个app要这么多钱!

2021年1月26日发(作者：天灾)


英语学习：原来开发一个
app
要这么多钱！

Do
you
ever
have
an
idea
for
that
million-
dollar
app?
Something
so
simple
it’s
crazy that it doesn’t exist and one so obviously good that it’s guaranteed to be
the next Uber. Of course you sometimes think that way, everyone does. The problem
is that very few people actually take steps to get the thing actually made.

你对耗费百万美元的
app
（应用程序）有概念吗？一些很简 单的事也会让人为之疯狂，
它并不存在的，
但明显很好，
被确保成为下一个优步
（打车软件）
。
当然有时候你会这么想，
每个人都会。问题是很少有人能真正采取措 施去实践。


I
have
an
idea
for
an
app
—

a
social
network
for
airports.
Need
a
charger?
Just
ask and see if someone has one they aren’t using. Flight delayed? Get a group of
people together for a game of cards. Got time to kill? Swing by the bar that’s
offering a free drink. It’s something I know will work but, like everyone else,
I haven’t done much about it other than tell my developer friends and hope they
say, “I’ll build it for you!”


我曾想开发一个与机场航班相关的社交
app
。需要充电器？只需要问问看是否有人有闲
置的。航班延误？那就召集一群人一起打牌。想打发时间？ 去免费提供饮料的酒吧晃晃吧。
我知道我能实现这些事，
但和其他人一样，
我除了跟做 开发的朋友说了这个想法，
并希望他
们对我说“我来帮你做吧！”之外，并没有做更多的工作。


It’s not that it’s not a great idea (it’s a GREAT idea), but I don’t even
know where to start. I don’t know the first thing about building an app. Nor am
I particularly interested in learning how to code so I can do it myself.

并不是说这不是一个好想法（其实是一个很棒的想法）
，但我甚至 不知道从哪里开始。
我不知道开发
app
的第一步要做什么。
我对学习写代码 也不是特别有兴趣，
所以难以自己完

成。


How much does it cost? How long will it take? Can I just pay someone to do it
for me?

会花多少钱？要花多长时间？我能付钱让别人帮我做吗？


What you can expect

你能期待什么


Enter Gigster, a company that specializes in helping technically illiterate
people
outsource
work
to
world-class
developers.
According
to
Gigster,
the
best
way
to figure out the total cost of building an app is to start with an MVP.

进入
Gigster
，这是一个专门帮助技术不通的人把工作外包给世界一流开发者的公司。< br>根据
Gigster
的说法，要弄明白开发一款
app
总共要花多少钱 ，最好的方法是从
MVP
开始。


No,
I’m
not
talking
about
Steph
Curry.
MVP
stands
for
Minimum
Viable
Product.
Basically, the simplest (and cheapest) version of a product to test the validity
of the idea so you can see if it works before betting the farm.

不，我并不是在说史蒂 芬·库里。
MVP
是指最小可行性产品。基本上，用一款产品最简
单（也是最便宜）的 版本来测试想法的正确性，这样你就能在孤注一掷前检验下是否可行。


Back
when
they
were
first
getting
started,
Gigster
calculated
the
estimated
cost
of the MVP for a bunch of popular apps by building a version of the app themselves
in order to get a reasonable pricing baseline. They outlined the technical specs
of apps like Uber, Airbnb, Tinder, and Yelp, then calculated the cost of the MVP