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Ask HN: Charging for amount of code versus charging an hourly rate
I have been doing some freelance work for a year or so now. I charge an hourly rate, but recently I started wondering if anyone charges their clients based on the amount of code. What are the benefits and drawbacks of charging for amount of code produced?
- Jeremy1026 12y agoDrawback would be what happens to all the code that gets scrapped along the way? Do you charge for it even though it never makes it into production?
- valarauca1 12y agoWhat incentive do you have to write clean performant, easy to read code if you are being paid by LoC? A lot of the draw backs to this scheme are the same with measuring developer productivity in LoC/hr
- washedup 12y agoThat makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
- mark_sz 12y agoThat doesn't make any sense. What if you've spent 8 hours thinking/planning your code and you came up with the solution that takes only 10 lines of code?
- washedup 12y agoThan such a payout would miss a lot of work that went into development of the code.