I do not think he can build something as big as social platform in a year given that he had to start from really scratch without any experience. Many companies will refuse to work with him. His lack of computer and IT knowledge will cost him extra time and money. It will be a miracle if he can pull off in two years.
More likely they are over optimistic. In a programming project, one tend to spend 90% of time in the last 10% of the project. When integrate codes together, it is time to discover bugs, bugs and bugs.
I do not think he can build something as big as social platform in a year given that he had to start from really scratch without any experience. Many companies will refuse to work with him. His lack of computer and IT knowledge will cost him extra time and money. It will be a miracle if he can pull off in two years.
Maybe he started two years ago?
More likely they are over optimistic. In a programming project, one tend to spend 90% of time in the last 10% of the project. When integrate codes together, it is time to discover bugs, bugs and bugs.