The app this customer built is a simple tool that allows you to post to multiple Twitter accounts. They learned a ton during the experience so they wanted to share some of those lessons with you.

They had a team of nine people which were divided as follows:

·         Two developers

·         One designer / front-end developer

·         Two bloggers

·         One copywriter

·         Three PR folks

·         I would say you only need three people if you want to strip it back to the bare minimum, which would look like this:

·         One developer

·         One designer / front-end developer

·         One blogger / PR person

The app was built in Python using Django and is hosted at WebFaction. It uses the Twitter API, Git and Codebase for version control.

On a basic level it cost them a week of salaries (around $10,000). There are some other small costs which I’m not including like rent, electricity, coffee and taxes. We got hosting for free because of a connection we have with the company but if you paid for that you might expect to pay not more than $400 for the first month (for a simple app).