Your freelance client wants you to build a Microsoft Teams clone, how much are you charging and how long would it take you?

Free laughs. For an eternity.

* installs slack *

Hey, look, I just saved us years of development and ongoing support.

Well, it won't ever be as good as teams if you're alone. And that is with Teams being what it is. Sure, a solo developer could absolutely build a clone, but with the timeframe that would most likely be required for a client to be happy, that's practically impossible.

Sometimes the best solutions are those that already exist.

Ah, yes… the casual "How hard can it be to make a facebook clone" type of client 😆

If it's genuinely just a clone, why wouldn't you use teams?

Honestly, projects with these sorts of requirements tend to make me run, as they're generally only given by clients who don't have a clue, won't be helpful, and will never be satisfied.

A basic clone with chat, video calling, user accounts and emoji but none of the fancy features and probably not quite as scalable? I'd say about a year on contracting rates so about £500 a day would be fair. All the libraries exist to do this but it would be a very complex and time consuming. If a client is offering less, good luck to them finding anyone who can do even a half-decent job of this...

Why would anybody want to replicate teams? It's a pile of burning garbage

@Ranchonyx probably they are thinking that they can do it better.

@Lensflare or maybe not send all their data to Microsoft 😂

@catgirldev how many cats and do you have a policy on allergies?