Poll: How long did it take you to build your prototype?

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I'm trying to get a poll from HN members to see what the typical average time looks like for you guys to build your prototype.

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It completely depends on what you're trying to build. I've built some things in a couple days (maprejuice.com -- for Node Knockout) and others over the course of a week.

I estimate my current project will take a month.

I'm curious what you're looking for here. Isn't this data completely useless if you don't know what the prototype is?

Not really. I'm just interested in seeing how long people typically take to build their prototype in general. Let's be honest here. Two people working on the same type of startup could spend totally different amounts of time coding out a prototype depending on what they want in it and features even if both were coded by equivalent coders. There's no real way to measure it even if I did ask people specifically what they're building out.

Rather, it just makes it easier to see the average time people spend building something and getting it to market instead. The data may not be very useful to others but it gives me a good understanding of what I'm looking for.

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