To implement each feature, backend and frontend coding, you gonna need a dedicated team of social media app developers. It may look like this, for example:

Let’s take a closer look at the must-have functionality you need to implement when building a social network application. The features we’ll further discuss are taken from the best examples of the existing social media apps that are there in the market.

Thus said, social network app development should lead to the creation of the product with the following main features:

  • Registration
  • User profile
  • Messaging
  • Posting media content
  • Feed
  • Search
  • Commenting
  • Groups of interest

So, to implement each feature, backend and frontend coding, you gonna need a dedicated team of social media app developers. It may look like this, for example:

iOS Developer

UX Designer

UI Designer

Project Manager

Q&A engineer

Front-end & Back-end developers.

Social media team

Yes, if you have a basic knowledge of programming you can build your app using the clone of already existing one, but… Honestly, it’s a very challenging task for so many reasons. That’s why we strongly advise you to hire professional developers from a trustworthy social media app development company if you want to do it faster, with high quality and potential to win the market niche.

This estimate will look like this:

I added Web Frontend to our estimation so we won’t miss any users looking for us on The Web. Features will be the same as in our future app.

According to The Next Web cost estimation, the top social networks has a following price:

Twitter-like app: $50,000 to $250,000

Instagram clone: $100,000 to $300,000

WhatsApp: $125.000 to $150.000

Pinterest: around $120,000

Vine: $125,000 and $175,000

Snapchat: $75,000 – $150,000

According to our experience, we can tell you that a social media app delivery time takes about 3-6 months (1800-2500 hours) and the total price of such fully functional chatting app developed from a scratch can be estimated roughly between $75,000 – $280,000 (at 40$/hour).

Plus, you should keep in mind some extra money for post-launch tech support (improvements and upgrades) and promotion campaign.

We can have a detailed  discussion over your concept. Feel free to reach us.