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		sidcool on Feb 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed s... >thought it would take 1–2 months to build DistroKid. It’s just plugging into some APIs and moving files around, right? I underestimated. It took a year. Wow. I would like to understand more about this.

wingerlang on Feb 16, 2017 [–]

Any technical tasks estimation is usually 3x of the intial. So let's just put 3-6 months there.

Then imagine talking to lots of 'stores', contracts, legal stuff and so on.

Just reading about what this is, I think even one year is quick.

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