[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What is the cost to launch a SaaS business MVP
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       Ask HN: What is the cost to launch a SaaS business MVP
        
       I interviewed several entrepreneurs, I noticed several spent so
       much money on developing their product before launch. What is your
       experience?
        
       Author : mikesabbagh
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2021-01-24 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | devoutsalsa wrote:
       | This is a pretty broad question. A big question is what does your
       | SaaS do, and how much functionality does your SaaS need to have?
       | And are you a developer who can build something end to end? I
       | built a basic recruiting app for maybe $20K in 2010, but I was
       | focused on a very specific feature set to keep the cost down.
        
       | wenbin wrote:
       | It depends on many different factors, e.g., what's the SaaS
       | business? do you value your own time? Do you count the
       | opportunity cost? Do you have some existing foundations to build
       | on, e.g., reuse old code base / customer relationship...
        
         | wenbin wrote:
         | The cost of building initial version of Calendly: a little over
         | $20k https://lnns.co/2trUaeuOwNB
        
       | fergbrain wrote:
       | $20...cost of a domain name and hosting.
        
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