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Project Development Time

This cluster focuses on comments asking about and sharing the time spent developing software projects, with estimates ranging from hours to months for coding, ideation, and learning.

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Sample Comments

Pawka • Jan 20, 2021 • View on HN

Nice project! How much time you've spent on it?

mute • Jul 5, 2013 • View on HN

Around 6 months. It's inhouse project and I spent as much time it was required to make it good. No idea how many actual hours has been spent.

zhangruinan • Jan 13, 2023 • View on HN

how much time do you spend to develop this project?

johnx123-up • Sep 14, 2011 • View on HN

Just curious... how quick it was? (2-days for coding and 2-months for ideation??)

lupatus • Apr 20, 2011 • View on HN

How long did it take you to create this?

Oleh_h • Oct 23, 2025 • View on HN

How much time did you spend on development?

bishwos • Aug 18, 2025 • View on HN

Interesting project. How much time did it take to build the project?

brudgers • Nov 11, 2016 • View on HN

Curious how long it took to develop.

junglee • May 27, 2009 • View on HN

calendar time...about 5 months. actual coding time...probably less than 2. the rest was reading and learning.

Topgamer7 • Nov 6, 2017 • View on HN

How long was your development time?