Depending on how much of the marketplace you are building and how much infrastructure for the events you are providing, you are looking at a significant cost to hire a developer for an application like this. In most scenarios, if you are asking "how much does it cost?", you will need to bring on a technology partner or an angel investor.I don't want to copy, the events would be in a specific niche, Eventbrite doesn't do this kind of events. Basically virtual reality events, there are many different worlds and apps in VR where people do events, like a church in VR, people geo to church in Virtual Reality with their VR headsets, so this would be one example of vr events. I go to VR cinemas, there are VR live concerts with real DJs and performers. There are schools and classes in VR, I go to sign language classes every Tuesday in with a real teacher. I can't find anything similar now, VR is very early yet, but growing very fast.
General advice as a younger developer in college, when someone reaches out to me about their ideas (which happens at least once a month), I am looking for a couple of things...
- You need a really solid plan and a really solid market
- You need proof you can execute that plan (what experience do you have to help you on the way?)
- You need to be focused on iterative development and starting small
Also, most developers will want an equity share in the company you are building. Websites and services like these aren't something that can be developed once and never change. They require active development, improvement, and fixes. You will need an ongoing relationship with a developer. This equity share should be substantial and carefully considered. Remember if your digital product doesn't work, your business doesn't work.
If you are not providing equity share, you should expect to pay at least $100 an hour for freelance work because you will need a full-stack developer, or perhaps $50-75 an hour for both a front-end and back-end developer.
Full-stack developers are broader and they can work on backend stuff such as databases and APIs as well as front-end stuff such as how the pages or buttons look on TheFastlaneForum.com.
Hope this was helpful!
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