Answers.Body: <p>All of it? Probably 10 years.</p>
  
  <p>(that's a serious answer - I know, as a member of the core team, I built a lot of it myself)</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Building the entire thing? My guess is at this point it's tens of thousands of hours.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Considering you're attempting to create an ever-evolving target, I'd say that you'd never be able to do it.    </p>
  
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Body: <p>This question is just to have an idea of the effort that has gone into building CiviCRM. How much time will it take to build CiviCRM from scratch by a single person? including testing and fixing the bugs.</p>
  
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Title: How much time it will take to build CiviCRM from scratch by single person?
ThreadText: # How much time it will take to build CiviCRM from scratch by single person?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-25)
  
  This question is just to have an idea of the effort that has gone into building CiviCRM. How much time will it take to build CiviCRM from scratch by a single person? including testing and fixing the bugs.
  
  **Tags:** evaluating-civicrm, civicrm-home
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-11-26. Score: 6
  
  All of it? Probably 10 years.
  
  (that's a serious answer - I know, as a member of the core team, I built a lot of it myself)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-11-26. Score: 2
  
  Building the entire thing? My guess is at this point it's tens of thousands of hours.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2018-01-02. Score: 0
  
  Considering you're attempting to create an ever-evolving target, I'd say that you'd never be able to do it.
  
  
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