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Most timeline articles hand you a range and stop there. This one shows you where every week of a website project actually goes, names the four things behind almost every delay, and puts a cost in days on each of them. Read it before you sign anything, because it will tell you whether the date you have been quoted is a real plan or a hopeful one.
Most articles on this subject stop at "buy a maintenance plan". This one walks through the real twelve months after handover with the hours and the money written out: how noisy the first month is, the four kinds of work that never stop, what a year of care actually costs, and the four honest ways of owning it. It also says plainly where we tell a client to buy less support than we would happily sell them.
A successful app follows a clear path from discovery to launch. Knowing the stages helps you plan time and budget.
Most answers to this question stop at a vague three to six months. This one gives you the week by week arithmetic for three real sizes of app, then covers the part that actually makes launches slip: the developer accounts, the privacy questionnaire, the reviewer test account and the store rules Apple and Google apply before anybody is allowed to download what you have paid for.
