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aladdinsane
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Post by aladdinsane »

Hi,

Yes I think that's it.

If you are doing something for a friend or as charity then it's going to be cheap or even free.

Running a business is different. Any clients you get know you are a business. They expect you to charge accordingly. If you can convince them you can do a good job for a good price your onto a winner.

So if this is work for a client then I'd say £1000 to £1500 roughly. Which I think is a good price. I know there are many companies that would charge more than double this and if the client likes what they do and thinks the work is worth the money they'll still go for it.

If it's for a friend ... it depends how good a friend they are!

Cheers

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Post by evilmonkey »

I'll give you $5 for it. :p :lol:

^^That was not an offense to your programming skills^^ :lol:

Seriously though, it really depends. I have made a website for an arts community. It allows you to submit pictures, resize them, display, comment on them, and download them. It's fully user driven featuring user profiles, e-mail and IM interaction (kind of like this BB), etc. How much would you say for something like that? I spent about half a year working on it, and it is setto launch next week. I'd charge about $1000 at least if i had to do it on a professional level. But i did it for myself, for fun.

So back to the point, it really depends.

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Post by toms100 »

Who would take you seriously as a coder charging $75 for 70+ hours of work? You work for $1 per hour? What kind of skills do you think that shows?
but thats assuming it actually took 70 hours... i dont see how such a project would take that long...
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Post by JPlush76 »

toms100 wrote:
Who would take you seriously as a coder charging $75 for 70+ hours of work? You work for $1 per hour? What kind of skills do you think that shows?
but thats assuming it actually took 70 hours... i dont see how such a project would take that long...
the guy said it took him 70+ hours of work. I didn't make an assumption.
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irealms
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Post by irealms »

i recently did a modification on a site message script i wrote. I did it for free as the site was a non profit organisation, wouldn't have a clue what to charge if i had.

My project is an online office environment. Meant to take 12 months and we had 2 months (2 of us), lots left to do on it and graphics need improving. I'm not really a graphic designer so would have to work on that, plus getting the funtionality was more important in the time we had.

If i was to offer that as a script or as a package to someone what do you think? (http://www.opensourcemanagement.com)

Bearing in mind it's my first attempt and there is a lot more left to do.
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Jade
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Post by Jade »

I HAVE an internet gaming site, and i'll tell you right now i would not charge anything LESS then $1k for a site like mine. There is so much maintence involved, as well as detailed and complicated scripts. Members are ALWAYS finding ways to get past your error catching codes or some other way to manipulate your scripts to their advantage. And if your seriously considering a programer that cheap, then you better recognize that you get what you pay for.... i learned that the hard way.

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Post by m3mn0n »

JPlush76 wrote:I have to initially say a few thousand dollars but I know sami is gonna come in here and say $20
lol
LMAO!
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