If you're building an IT project or a TECH startup, you'll need to define your costs before building the business model. In the rush of a hackathon, you can easily forget to estimate some costs. This workshop will help you to define the IT costs you'll need for your startup project

1. Define the IT costs
for your startup
Amine BENDAHMANE
HACKALGERIA #POST-COVID19

2. First thing first
• Know your product
• Know your process
• Define your general needs

3. Hosting
• Shared hosting
• Simple website, low number of users at the same time
• Serveur dedié ou VPS
• If you need to install your own services, APIs, Databases, System calls…
• Serveur Cloud
• Scalablilty & adaptability
• Your own Data Center
• Not recommended for a startup
• Need energy management & network management hardware
• Air conditionning / Heat management

4. Other hosting costs
• Domain name fees (reccuring)
• .com, .net….
• Free .dz for algerian companies
• SSL certificates (reccuring)
• Security validation
• SEO
• Search Engine optimization to be well ranked in Google search
• Other infrastructure costs
• If you have you own servers

5. Outsourcing
• Sotfware installation
• System updates & migration
• Performances tracking and optimization
• Technical assistance
• Security checks

6. Software & tools
• Stock management
• Clients management
• Project management
• Code repositories & Bug trackers
• ...

7. Hardware
• Computers
• Screens
• Printers
• Consummer
• Modems & routers
• Phones
• IoT
• …

8. Maintenance costs
• Hardware
• Rechange parts + transportation
• Customized software features
• Security enhancement
• System failures
• …

9. Human ressources
• Design
• Developpemnt
• Testing
• Security
• Integration
• Deployment
• Systems administrators
• ...etc

10. Services (3rd party)
• SMS messaging
• Maps API
• Transaction fees
• Email accounts / Mass Mailing
• Google ads / Facebook ads..
• File storage services
• Apps store / Play store registration fees
• Training
• …(more)

11. Questions