What Would it Cost to Clone Redfin?
A thread on real estate webmasters had our dev team talking on Friday. Turns out someone tried to clone our site for the low low outsourced cost of $10,000.
The thread has been commented on by a few people, Marlow, Glenn our CEO and Savan our former designer.
Our tech team is 20-something people. We’ve been working on the site for years. At roughly $200,000/head we’ve spent millions building our site. It’s surprising to me that someone would find it surprising they could reproduce it for the low cost of $10,000; the equivalent of one employee for one month.
Anyhow, we all had a good laugh about this over the weekend.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Suck one, it won’t cost that much to clone redfin, sure it’s a nice site with a lot of coding, but a few thousand will get it done.