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Cost comparison custom and yourapi solution
Activity Amount of work yourapi amount of work
Research 3-6 days 0
Design url's, database, security 10-15 days 0
Build a prototype 5-8 days 0
Minimum viable product 5-10 days 0
Full product 10-20 days 5 days
Monitoring and alerting 3-5 days 0
Documentation (somebody will use your API!) 1-2 days 1 day
Selecting hosting, deployment 5-8 days 0
Deployment
Set up servers, load balancing, fail over etc. 5 days 0
Set up continuous integration and testing 5-10 days 0
Exploitation (per month)
Hosting webservers $100-$200, depending on size 0
Hosting database $250 0
Maintenance 8-24 hrs 0
yourapi costs - $450
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