#development cost

[pritivora26]

 It doesn't take one magical number to estimate the cost of custom software development. Instead, it is about naming the variables involved-feature complexity, technology stack choices, composition of teams, security measures taken, continuous maintenance, and so on-and aligning those variables with your corporate goals and priorities. By tackling cost estimation systematically, you can be assured of relying on industry best practices to help you in making good investments with confidence. Read more.

[prometteursolutions]

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[blockchainxtech]

How much does it cost to develop an NFT Marketplace?

 NFT is certainly becoming a trend-setter in the modern digitalized world. According to Statista, the NFT market is estimated to reach $8,412 million by 2027. This market has been very successful as it provides a simple and secure experience to users and business owners around the world. 

With the increasing popularity of NFT, it is now becoming the best option for investing among entrepreneurs and companies. However, before jumping into this trend, business owners should understand how much it costs to develop an NFT marketplace.

In this article, learn all about the cost of NFT Marketplace Development and the factors that can affect the overall cost of building such a marketplace:

NFT Market Development Cost

The cost of NFT e-commerce market development ranges between $50,000 and $500,000. The cost may vary depending on the customizations that companies need in their market to meet business needs.

It is important to note that NFT is an emerging field and its costs could change once new technologies and tools become available. 

Key Features Affecting NFT Market Development Cost

Building an NFT market involves the use of many tools and technologies that dominate the cost of building such a platform. Let's take a look at some of its features that affect the overall cost of building an NFT marketplace:

Showcase

The storefront is an essential feature of an NFT Marketplace as it provides users with all the relevant information related to their assets. This is the place where users can find information about their item details, offers, price history, owner, and many other things. Its main function is to inform users about their assets. It acts as a dashboard that helps companies improve customer engagement. It can cost you between $14,000 and $15,000.

Live auction 

An NFT marketplace should possess a live auction feature where users can sell various tokens that cannot be used to purchase other tokens. This feature shows different types of information to users and the platform owner. For example, the person behind the sale of the tokens, the names of the tokens, the payment methods, the price, the number of bids, the images, and the time left for users to place their bids. This feature can cost between $4,000 and $5,000.

Wallet

The NFT marketplace must have a wallet that allows users to send, store and receive tokens and cryptocurrencies that cannot be used to buy other things. The NFT marketplace should have its own wallet or be able to work with existing wallets to provide users with a smooth and hassle-free platform experience. Integrating or customizing your wallet on their marketplace can cost you between $3,000 and $10,000.

Trend Collections

Some of the NFT items sell for a higher price than usual if they are displayed in the 'Trending Collections' section. Therefore, your NFT marketplace should have a 'Trending Collections' feature with information such as the characteristics of the crypto collectible, average price, total supply, trading volume, and seller name. This feature can cost between $1,000 and $2,000.

Search and filter functionality

NFT Marketplace should have search and filtering features as it allows users to find the items on sale easily and effortlessly. This feature is designed specifically for sellers to make the search process easy. With this functionality, users do not need to navigate the entire platform to find what they are looking for. This functionality will cost between $2,500 and $3,000.

Create List

 NFTs and sell them on the market. Displays NFTs information such as price, tags, title and detailed description of the assets. This feature can cost between $1,000 and $3,000.

Ratings

Having ratings and reviews as a feature can improve the stature of your business in the Web3 Market Development community. Allows users to provide feedback on your platform. These reviews may be useful for new users and NFT businesses. This feature can cost between $3,500 and $4,000.

The total cost of developing an NFT market depends on these features. Adding more increases the complexity of the project, which adds to the overall cost of building such a platform.

Other factors affecting the cost of NFT Market

Building an NFT Creating a platform from scratch with extensive features and security measures requires a lot of time and effort.  other factors that impact the total cost:

NFT Technology Stack

Technology stacks are essential for the NFT market development. It comprises everything from databases, performance tools, frameworks, interfaces (UI/UX), back-end, programming languages, front-end, servers, operating systems, and more. 

NFT Development Team

To build an NFT platform, you will need to outsource many NFT developers and experts who can transform your idea into reality. Your NFT Marketplace development team will include the following:

Business analysts

Project managers

NFT developers

Solution Architect

QA

UI/UX Designers

The average cost of hiring developers ranges from $100 to $200 per month. May vary depending on location. For example, in Europe or Australia, the developer cost starts from $80 per hour and may differ depending on your needs and requirements. 

Project complexity

Each project is different and includes various complications. It depends on the features you want to add to your marketplace, or does development take longer than usual. Each and every aspect is taken into account when developing an NFT marketplace. The budget is then decided accordingly. 

The simple complexity project will have a development cost ranging from $8,000 to $45,000.

The medium complexity project will have a development cost ranging between $45,000 and $100,000.

The most complex project will cost more than $100,000.

NFT Market Maintenance

The cost of the NFT The market does not end after its development. If you are looking to develop a long-term market, you need to consider support and maintenance costs. Maintenance costs include the following factors:

server costs- $10,000- $20,000

Bug fixes- $5,000- $10,000

Third Party Integration- $2,000- $10,000

Platform upgrades- $5,000- $10,000

Security patches- $10,000- $20,000

NFT Niche Market

The cost of NFT Market development can also vary depending on the market categories you select as a niche. For example, if you are looking for collectibles, the market should be safer. Since NFTs are assets, the market where they are sold varies in terms of shapes, themes, style and other factors. The breakdown of the four main market categories is as follows:

Gaming Market- $100.00- $500,000

Open and premium market- $50,000- $150,000

Collectibles Market- $60,000- $250,000

Curated and Uncurated NFT Market- $80,000- $250,000

In conclusion

The NFT marketplace can provide businesses and organizations with many important benefits, given the tremendous growth of NFTs globally NFT marketplace is attracting users from around the world as it offers a high level of security, decentralization, and the ability to own assets. digital. 

By understanding the cost of developing an NFT marketplace, it is easier for companies to build a strong platform. Additionally, it is essential to take into account the factors that affect the total cost. It is always best to get advice from experts before building an NFT marketplace from scratch.

[marzipanandminutiae]

"we bought this Victorian house and opened up the interior, adding lots of overhead lights and pewter walls-"

biting you killing you biting you killing you biting you killing you

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever

I'll be in TUCSON, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the GUEST OF HONOR at the TUSCON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION.

"Switching costs" are one of the great underappreciated evils in our world: the more it costs you to change from one product or service to another, the worse the vendor, provider, or service you're using today can treat you without risking your business.

Businesses set out to keep switching costs as high as possible. Literally. Mark Zuckerberg's capos send him memos chortling about how Facebook's new photos feature will punish anyone who leaves for a rival service with the loss of all their family photos – meaning Zuck can torment those users for profit and they'll still stick around so long as the abuse is less bad than the loss of all their cherished memories:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

It's often hard to quantify switching costs. We can tell when they're high, say, if your landlord ties your internet service to your lease (splitting the profits with a shitty ISP that overcharges and underdelivers), the switching cost of getting a new internet provider is the cost of moving house. We can tell when they're low, too: you can switch from one podcatcher program to another just by exporting your list of subscriptions from the old one and importing it into the new one:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise

But sometimes, economists can get a rough idea of the dollar value of high switching costs. For example, a group of economists working for the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau calculated that the hassle of changing banks is costing Americans at least $677m per year (see page 526):

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_personal-financial-data-rights-final-rule_2024-10.pdf

The CFPB economists used a very conservative methodology, so the number is likely higher, but let's stick with that figure for now. The switching costs of changing banks – determining which bank has the best deal for you, then transfering over your account histories, cards, payees, and automated bill payments – are costing everyday Americans more than half a billion dollars, every year.

Now, the CFPB wasn't gathering this data just to make you mad. They wanted to do something about all this money – to find a way to lower switching costs, and, in so doing, transfer all that money from bank shareholders and executives to the American public.

And that's just what they did. A newly finalized Personal Financial Data Rights rule will allow you to authorize third parties – other banks, comparison shopping sites, brokers, anyone who offers you a better deal, or help you find one – to request your account data from your bank. Your bank will be required to provide that data.

I loved this rule when they first proposed it:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism

And I like the final rule even better. They've really nailed this one, even down to the fine-grained details where interop wonks like me get very deep into the weeds. For example, a thorny problem with interop rules like this one is "who gets to decide how the interoperability works?" Where will the data-formats come from? How will we know they're fit for purpose?

This is a super-hard problem. If we put the monopolies whose power we're trying to undermine in charge of this, they can easily cheat by delivering data in uselessly obfuscated formats. For example, when I used California's privacy law to force Mailchimp to provide list of all the mailing lists I've been signed up for without my permission, they sent me thousands of folders containing more than 5,900 spreadsheets listing their internal serial numbers for the lists I'm on, with no way to find out what these lists are called or how to get off of them:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service

So if we're not going to let the companies decide on data formats, who should be in charge of this? One possibility is to require the use of a standard, but again, which standard? We can ask a standards body to make a new standard, which they're often very good at, but not when the stakes are high like this. Standards bodies are very weak institutions that large companies are very good at capturing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/

Here's how the CFPB solved this: they listed out the characteristics of a good standards body, listed out the data types that the standard would have to encompass, and then told banks that so long as they used a standard from a good standards body that covered all the data-types, they'd be in the clear.

Once the rule is in effect, you'll be able to go to a comparison shopping site and authorize it to go to your bank for your transaction history, and then tell you which bank – out of all the banks in America – will pay you the most for your deposits and charge you the least for your debts. Then, after you open a new account, you can authorize the new bank to go back to your old bank and get all your data: payees, scheduled payments, payment history, all of it. Switching banks will be as easy as switching mobile phone carriers – just a few clicks and a few minutes' work to get your old number working on a phone with a new provider.

This will save Americans at least $677 million, every year. Which is to say, it will cost the banks at least $670 million every year.

Naturally, America's largest banks are suing to block the rule:

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/cfpbs-open-banking-rule-faces-suit-from-bank-policy-institute

Of course, the banks claim that they're only suing to protect you, and the $677m annual transfer from their investors to the public has nothing to do with it. The banks claim to be worried about bank-fraud, which is a real thing that we should be worried about. They say that an interoperability rule could make it easier for scammers to get at your data and even transfer your account to a sleazy fly-by-night operation without your consent. This is also true!

It is obviously true that a bad interop rule would be bad. But it doesn't follow that every interop rule is bad, or that it's impossible to make a good one. The CFPB has made a very good one.

For starters, you can't just authorize anyone to get your data. Eligible third parties have to meet stringent criteria and vetting. These third parties are only allowed to ask for the narrowest slice of your data needed to perform the task you've set for them. They aren't allowed to use that data for anything else, and as soon as they've finished, they must delete your data. You can also revoke their access to your data at any time, for any reason, with one click – none of this "call a customer service rep and wait on hold" nonsense.

What's more, if your bank has any doubts about a request for your data, they are empowered to (temporarily) refuse to provide it, until they confirm with you that everything is on the up-and-up.

I wrote about the lawsuit this week for @eff@mastodon.social's Deeplinks blog:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/no-matter-what-bank-says-its-your-money-your-data-and-your-choice

In that article, I point out the tedious, obvious ruses of securitywashing and privacywashing, where a company insists that its most abusive, exploitative, invasive conduct can't be challenged because that would expose their customers to security and privacy risks. This is such bullshit.

It's bullshit when printer companies say they can't let you use third party ink – for your own good:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/

It's bullshit when car companies say they can't let you use third party mechanics – for your own good:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms

It's bullshit when Apple says they can't let you use third party app stores – for your own good:

https://www.eff.org/document/letter-bruce-schneier-senate-judiciary-regarding-app-store-security

It's bullshit when Facebook says you can't independently monitor the paid disinformation in your feed – for your own good:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#quis-custodiet-ipsos-zuck

And it's bullshit when the banks say you can't change to a bank that charges you less, and pays you more – for your own good.

CFPB boss Rohit Chopra is part of a cohort of Biden enforcers who've hit upon a devastatingly effective tactic for fighting corporate power: they read the law and found out what they're allowed to do, and then did it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

The CFPB was created in 2010 with the passage of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which specifically empowers the CFPB to make this kind of data-sharing rule. Back when the CFPA was in Congress, the banks howled about this rule, whining that they were being forced to share their data with their competitors.

But your account data isn't your bank's data. It's your data. And the CFPB is gonna let you have it, and they're gonna save you and your fellow Americans at least $677m/year – forever.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/bankshot/#personal-financial-data-rights

[monstatron]

BIG BOSS LADY

( obasi is a woman and butch lesbian that uses she/her & he/him ! )

some doodles of obasi with her coat, though admittedly, as impressive as her style is, her coat is like a shadow that still cascades her…

some additional yap about this is in the thread under the cut + bonus backstory doodle 🦍

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️

obasi’s lore is reflective of some of my own experiences, which includes child abuse/neglect and cptsd. please proceed with caution and stay safe ❤️

mind my very incorrect grammar here lol

dubaku never wanted to be a parent, he enjoyed the illusion of parenthood, but after he lost gabi (obasi's mother), he realized how little he truly cared for family. much like how he raised obasi, he was raised to see family as something dangerous and draining, a chore more than love. so when obasi was born all he could think of was the blood he would shed for her that he did not want to shed. dubaku never wanted to be a father.

he didn’t want the life of a crime lord and he most certainly did not want a child to go along with it. he knew that in raising obasi, he would have no choice but to work until he died, so he chose to be miserable. he chose to hurt his daughter. he chose to make obasi feel all that pain and anguish in every neglectful action towards her.

obasi loathed dubaku as much and he loathed her, and in the end, she did not loathe him as much as she thought. in the end, dubaku is still her father and a part of her wants to love him, and that’s why she wears his coat when she grows older. his coat is the last semblance of some kind of love that vanished the moment she was thrust into his shadow.

deep down i think there’s still a child in obasi that wanted to see dubaku as her father and not a role to follow, she wanted to love him as family and not loathe him for the successful crime leader that he was. she wanted to carve her own path but had no choice but to follow his. and now, by the time the events of the main story happen, she’s about the same age her father was when he was murdered, and she’s filled the shoes she was destined to fill. but at what cost?

obasi’s coat is ultimately symbolic of the hatred, neglect, and pure malice that shaped her childhood. it represents how she is so deeply tethered to an instinctive love of her family but simultaneously, a boundless hate.

she wears her father’s coat like she wears her past upon her shoulders.

anyway im just tweaking over my own oc lore huzzah

[twilightstation]

Heartbreaking: in another era UX/DR would have been full hand-held console games

[geelk]

Honestly this was an excuse to draw this poor boy with that Dimmadome look in his eye😔

[mumblesplash]

i'm not built for online friendships if i'm being totally honest like i *can* do it but the fastest way to my heart is and has always been roadtrips involving at least some risk of grievous bodily harm

[unbfacts]

[miyku]

game industry oh.. vidya gamez should cost 100 dabloons

brooooooother those AAAAAAA games are hardly worth 60 dabloons shut up

[ttheoretical]

ten years from now a banana really will cost ten dollars and arrested development will be ten percent less funny

[s-aint-elmo]

the "girls seeking an impossible wish trapped in a system that twists them into hollow shells of grief and resentment used by other girls to fuel their own desperate struggle" pipeline is multiversal

(ID and additional context in alt text)

[pistachi0art]

the great thing about HL putting Barney aside and him lacking the “G-Man Deus ex Machina” plot armor is that with the potential of any HL spinoff title where he comes back as the MC they can do whatever the hell they want with him. The two extremes on the scale go to silly romp to psychological horror.

however all of my bets say that they’re most likely to kill him off in a future HL title- the fun part is figuring out how they’ll do it.

[mytyldotwav]

new game over screen in the latest Ultrakill update