VB .NET & DELPHI - How difficult is it to develop SEO tools

macdonjo3 said:

You've obviously learned nothing about programming in these 6 months. If you have the ability to do it, you should be able to answer the question yourself.
SENuke hired a massive and I believe they said it costed over $150,000 to develop.

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You really believe that? As a programmer myself there is no way it costed $150,000 to develop SEnukeX. And if it did they overpaid by a extremely large margin. Maybe if you add up EVERYTHING OVER THE YEARS: Support, Servers, Customer Support, Ect. But, to simply program the software. 150k, No Way.

Software like SEnukeX does not require teams of coders like they say they have. It Requires 1 Maybe 2 at MOST.

Alex Krulik developed MS on his own and it costed nowhere near as much. It also has most of the things that SenukeXCR is suppose to have and MS has had those features for awhile now.

Future said:

You really believe that? As a programmer myself there is no way it costed $150,000 to develop SEnukeX. And if it did they overpaid by a extremely large margin. Maybe if you add up EVERYTHING OVER THE YEARS: Support, Servers, Customer Support, Ect. But, to simply program the software. 150k, No Way.

Software like SEnukeX does not require teams of coders like they say they have. It Requires 1 Maybe 2 at MOST.

Alex Krulik developed MS on his own and it costed nowhere near as much. It also has most of the things that SenukeXCR is suppose to have and MS has had those features for awhile now.

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Actually it can cost that much without any problem. It depends from who you order and from which part of the world. If you outsource to a real company that pay taxes and more its not just sallary that needs to be paied while they work on the software. so to pay about 100-150$/hour for one coder in a country like sweden or other nordic company is not much at all. so that rounds up to 1000h for the development, reserch and testing. also re-coding and changing things that needs to change on the way. full time coder 8h/day then have 6month to complete such software.
A software is not all about functions behind. it's about layouting it logically and make it understandable. making graphics to ilustrate and writing text. suddenly a software like that takes alot more time then you think.

The main thing in these language is the Socket stuff and for that I'm afraid you will not able to see such a good tutorials that will certainly help you out. I my self trying to learn the httpwebrequest stuff from 1 week and still in some problems.

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i will suggest to you, you can go for the C# because It is compiled to an intermediate language (CIL) indepently of the language it was developed or the target architecture and operating system, Automatic garbage collection, Apps can be executed within a restricted sandbox.

I went with VB.NET a couple of years ago and I'm happy with my choice. I have created a web 2.0 blog creator and poster with vb.net, it took six months to get it perfect (in spare time).

6 months is not unreasonable to develop a product (for an experienced coder). If you're just starting out, you should start off simple and build upon your previous work. This can take years to master. And yes, $150k for a software product is cheap in my opinion.

For what its worth I took a look at vb.net vs. c# and to me, c# is more familiar and similar to other programming languages.

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