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Is that a lot for a website?

• klyrs 6y ago
  I made about a dozen websites in the late 90s and early aughts... most I ever made at it was 50k/y. OTOH, they worked and continued to work long past my involvement. Maybe it's a fair price for a shoddy website?
  • hogFeast 6y ago
    With these projects, there are Veblen effects. No-one wants the $50k/year consultant who quietly cranks out good work...they want the $300k/year consultants whose work may or may not be good but they can spin, make things easy with your boss, etc. ...stuff like this drives me mad. You see it everywhere. I worked in financial services, and (on my weaker days) it was enraging to see someone pay three or four times the price to get a product that was not only bad, it was literally worthless...life is weird.
  • cm2187 6y ago
    Modern websites are designed to blow up as soon as there isn't an active development team anymore. The docker image needs to be rebuilt from source, the cloud APIs get deprecated, etc.
    • lazyjeff 6y ago
      Yes, that's a good way to put it. I've been campaigning against this trend for a while in any project I'm involved in [https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/]. The toolchain is simply bloated, and pieces brittle. Many of the projects out there would not last past an OS upgrade.