No big companies seem to take any steps to help out people around the wolrd other than telling you to stay home. Obviously your 13 yo nephew can make an app on the family computer on the weekend, but not a complicated one which will help out the current crisis. That is why we want to step up.
Android and ios support is obvious, and we will try to be ad-free, but we do not have long term calculations for running costs. The project budget only includes the start up cost.
Making an app in this size is not cheap, we have connected 3 different companies and the expenses averaged around 40 000 dollars. Plus we want to set up a team of critics who are previewing news before publishing.
Currently we are focusing on step 1 which is delivering useful, trusted news. This will inlude:
Planning of step 2 and 3 are still in progress.
***Extension for rewards: If you choose “pledge without reward” we will also include your name to the “founders tab” mentioned at rewards.
There are 1 major risk about this app…..That is it will not get ready before the crisis ends, (That is why we included 3 steps into developing to at least give a part of it as soon as possible.) honestly in that case we do not know what we will do with the developing in progress. Please also keep in mind that an app like this usually takes up to 12 to 16 weeks to make but we are aiming for 6 weeks which we can not 100% guarantee.