$5? If I can't solve it with Google, it is worthy more than $5! :) I am thinking about rates between $30 and $150 per hour. I think must be a protocol to under

$5? If I can't solve it with Google, it is worthy more than $5! :) I am thinking about rates between $30 and $150 per hour. I think must be a protocol to understand the size of the problem. If it is something that will need more than, say, 10 hours, so it becomes a traditional freelance job. But this risk you say happens on every freelance or outsource job of any size. A freelancer that expects to built a site in 2 weeks, can take 2 months if he didn't do his due dilligence right. A software factory that quote to do a system in 3 months, may take 1 year if the communication on the quote phase was problematic. This happens everywhere, it doesn't justify a "not worthy model" for me.