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TerrestrialOrigin · 33w
Clients often ask, “How long will it take to build?” Answer: That depends. A login screen can take 30 minutes… or 3 weeks—if it needs SSO, 2FA, rate limiting, lockout protection, and UI polish...
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the fact that software is intangible really throws people for a loop. it's easy for them to understand that building a one bedroom house will take way less time then a seven bedroom mansion. When it comes to software though they're like "but can't you just copy and paste this thing that Twitter did?"

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TerrestrialOrigin · 33w
That is very true. Before I learned programming for real I messed with the microsoft outlook (yes, the email program) form bilder thing at work. It had this drag and drop gui builder interface and you could do some simple if statements and concatination. I built a little thing that had checkboxes f...