Estimate your App

Select the items below which best describe your app and the features you require.

Oshara App Estimator

1. How big is your app?

Small

Your app probably has around 4-5 key feature pages (excluding any static content, sign in, sign up etc.)

Medium

Your app probably has around 6-9 key feature pages (excluding any static content, sign in, sign up etc.)

Large

Your app probably has around 10-15 key feature pages (excluding any static content, sign in, sign up etc.)

2. What level of UI would you like?

MVP

Minimum Viable Product. Very raw but functional, no UI designer required.

Basic

Still quite basic but pleasing to the eye, perhaps using purchased template.

Polished

Professional bespoke UI design. May also have some animations and transitions etc.

4. User Generated Content

Dashboard

A dashboard would usually be the first thing a user sees when logged in and would summarize data and perhaps show graphs and notices.

Activity Feed

An activity feed would perhaps show what user have been doing recently.

File Uploading

Users would be able to upload file content, eg images, PDF's etc.

User Profiles

Users would be able to manage and publish their profiles to other users within your app, eg Twitter profiles.

Transactional Emails

User might receive regular automated emails from the app to drive engagement or notify them of changes.

Tags

Tags allow users to categorize information so that others can find relevant information.

Ratings or reviews

Typical use case for ratings and reviews might be restaurant reviews or customer satisfaction ratings.

Audio/Video processing

Encoding, modification and storage of audio or video files.

Free text searching

Giving users the ability to search their data in natural ways perhaps with a type-ahead style search box.

5. Dates & Locations

Calendaring

Display and capture of data in a calendar format.

Display of Map data / Geolocation

Showing a map with data points, eg venue locations, driver locations etc.

Display of custom map markers/regions

Allowing the user to select a map area visually or custom icons for different location types.

Bookings

Selecting start and end dates, managing capacity etc.

6. Social & Engagement

Messaging

Allowing users within the app to send messages to other account users or groups of users.

Forums or commenting

Classic forum functionality for account users or simple commenting on information.

Social Sharing

Ability to share pieces of information in a controlled way on social media accounts to drive engagement.

Push to Facebook Open Graph

Pushing content from your app directly in to the Facebook Graph.

7. Billing & eCommerce

Subscription plans

Your app will have a plan based revenue model where your customers will pay monthly or yearly.

Payment processing

You will process adhoc or regular payments from users and manage refunds etc.

Shopping Cart

Users will be able to browse products and add them to a cart, Amazon style.

User Marketplace

Users will be able to sell products or services to other users and your revenue model will be based on a commission model.

Product Management

Ability to manage data, eg product listings, availabilities or other data relevant to your domain.

8. Admin, Feedback & Analytics

CMS Integration

A content management system would allow editing of significant parts of the static content of the app without developer intervention.

User Admin pages

Account administrators would be able to list/add/remove/suspend users.

Moderation / Content Approval

Account administrators would oversee content submitted by users for publication and would have an approval workflow.

Intercom

A leading third party platform for managing user engagement, drip emails, feature announcements etc.

Usage Analytics

Find out where your users come from and how they use your app. We recommend Kissmetrics and Google Analytics.

Crash Reporting

When things go wrong you need to know, we recommend Sentry.

Performance Monitoring

As you scale up it is important to know that you are maintaining a good user experience and making efficient use of your hosting environment.

Multilingual Support

Provide support for multiple languages for your app.

9. External APIs and Integrations

Connect to one or more third party services

Perhaps a data feed that you need to integrate with or a partner app.

An API for others to integrate with your app

You are building a platform and you want others to integrate with you directly.

SMS Messaging

Messaging Allow your app to send SMS messages.

Phone Number Masking

Calls made through your app with have masked phone numbers.

10. Security

SSL Certificate based Security

The industry standard way to ensure your users data is safe during their use of your app.

DoS protection

For high volume app with a high public profile, you may be the target of Denial of Service attacks.

Two Factor Authentication

More common for financial or highly sensitive information based apps, this requires your user supplies additional information above a simple password.

Hourly rate :

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Total cost: $

Please note, all cost estimates are intended to be indicative of development costs and timescales only and are exclusive of all hosting costs, paid services or purchased assets of any kind. All prices are in CAD and not include sales tax.

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