How many developers do I need to build a website like Freelancer.com in about 3-5 months? [closed]

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Published on 2011-11-28T07:33:47Z Indexed on 2011/11/28 10:38 UTC
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I have been asked to make a list of people that I need to build something similar to freelancer.com. Not exactly same, has a few more features to it too but I can't really get my head around the whole freelancer.com site.

I have built a social networking site from scratch which is 70% of Facebook and 20% Google+ in about 5 months with raw PHP, JS, CSS and Ajax.

I dont think it will take me more than a month or something to build the whole freelancer.com from scratch. Please suggest anything that should I pay attention to.

I am thinking about:

2 php developers
1 mysql engineer
1 network/server engineer
1 graphics artist
1 UI developer
Time frame: 20 days

Is this a good estimation?

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