3 ms·
If I were him, I wouldn't worry about 1 customer saying they'll build their own. My coworker (a PM, no less) decided, rather than Solr or ElasticSearch, to writ
by alanctgardner2 13y ago
If I were him, I wouldn't worry about 1 customer saying they'll build their own. My coworker (a PM, no less) decided, rather than Solr or ElasticSearch, to write his own search engine for a work project. He did it, and it obviously took 10 times longer than estimated and cost way more than was necessary. There will always be a proportion of customers who want it cheaper, but that doesn't mean you're priced wrong: it means they're not measuring value accurately.
For a good engineer, 600 dollars gets you something between 10 and 20 hours of work. To produce a polished project, start to finish, that's not going to happen.