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Video Summary
The TechCrunch website cost $1 million and took 1 year to build by the company Human Made. The cost breakdown was $300k for design, $200k for infrastructure, and $500k for development/migration.
Human Made doesn’t use page builders for enterprise sites like TechCrunch. They focus on Gutenberg and block editing to have better control and avoid expensive migrations later.
The infrastructure budget was high due to the large amount of traffic and need to scale and stay performant. The development budget covered migration complexities and custom editorial workflows.
The project timeline was around 6 months of work for Human Made’s team of engineers, project managers, etc. They used an agile/scrum approach with constant user feedback.
The original time and budget estimates were exceeded as TechCrunch’s ambitions grew during the project. There ended up being a comprehensive second phase to address the increased scope.
