Unless we are talking about templates and cookie-cutter apps, this whole thing has little meaning. Really good stuff is done by hackers and painters, therefore

Unless we are talking about templates and cookie-cutter apps, this whole thing has little meaning. Really good stuff is done by hackers and painters, therefore when you estimate your costs, you only tend to see the canvas and a little gouache, which are a commodity—just like computing. And perhaps some of your time, most surely, if you don't have a good time doing it. Saying, that the painting of a picture costs X€ is about a code monkey who has no idea about what the real work is truly about. But yes, management does have an interest in the devaluation of productive work to leave room for their own overhead. There are thousands of apps out there in the world, and from that perspective it is nothing but throw-away-junk, warranting a low price. Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?—Alan J. Perlis Those who compete with slaves will also become slaves.—Norbert Wiener