If I read correctly, there was an effort to raise 200k USD for it? I really fail to see why this would require 200k USD (?)... Is it a "downsized" version? What am I missing?
Theymos hired a company to build a new forum for 1.5 million
The comparison is notable, but the association is one I would avoid. FP's project seems considerably more ... useful.
IIRC devs generally cost about 600/diem, and produce about 20 lines in a day over the long-run. But since we're talking about FP, we'll budget 1k/diem and demand 200 lines daily, so I would expect to pay 1.35mm for 270kloc of de novo code. Probably the project uses a fair proportion of cutnpaste from elsewhere (legit, and adding value to the project, but not a large proportion of the labor) so that number should be derated -- for conservativism in valuation with large unknowns and no diligence budget, we'll derate aggressively, 50%. Looks to me like it would cost at
least 500k $US to reproduce that project. If I were a coin investor, and wanted my coin to see real economic use, I would feel very good about spending 200k and getting that in the process.
