kane

Hi,

I have a friend who has an idea for a site he wants to develop. The site would be similar to YouTube or other tube/video sites. He would like to build the site from scratch instead of using a pre-existing piece of software like Mechbunny or some other tube script. My question is, does anyone have a ballpark figure what it would cost to hire a programmer/company to build a YouTube style clone with a custom backend from scratch?

Mostly just looking for some general ideas of what he could expect something like this to cost and how long it might take to develop.

Thanks