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Holy sh... I have to say, I am very bad at making estimates. I don't work freelance but it happened that I had to make some projects for people. I tried to esti

Holy sh... I have to say, I am very bad at making estimates. I don't work freelance but it happened that I had to make some projects for people. I tried to estimate the cost of some applications that I made/make in my spare time and the average is way way way higher than I would have ever charged anyone... I need to reconsider my prices... Which is amazing to be honest, making prices I really hard for me and a tool like this can be an amazing opportunity to find my value. Thanks

dynjo 11y ago
btw you can actually plug in your own rates at the bottom. We are also going to make this a free tool for other agencies to use with their own feature lists, branding etc
krschultz 11y ago
Do you think the results from this tool are HIGH? I went through a couple different apps I know and thought the estimate provided by the page needed to be multiplied by 3-5. The default rates are $56 an hour. For Android/iOS developers, I know a dozen people making $100-200 an hour. It's a great tool (and note you can actually adjust your price at the bottom), but I would consider all of the quotes around time & rate as the low end.
- marpalmin 11y ago
  As I mentioned earlier, it really depends on the country you are in. Outside US $100 - 200 per hours is ver high, even in most EU countries.
- sokoloff 11y ago
  duiker's comments were more along the lines of how he's been underquoting. Extremely common among early (or occasional) SWE freelancers IME, myself included. IME, you can get to a point where you tally everything up and it comes to $65K, and then you start thinking, well this would be a fun side gig, and I have some free time I otherwise waste, and I sure could buy something cool with even $25K (after tax), and some of my estimates might be a little on the fat side, and this is a buddy (or isn't well funded, or both), and coding is fun enough that I sometimes do it for free anyhow, so I'll bid $45K. And you've not accounted for the inevitable yak shaves, scope creep items, etc, but you got the work for $30K less than you should/could have.

dynjo 11y ago

btw you can actually plug in your own rates at the bottom. We are also going to make this a free tool for other agencies to use with their own feature lists, branding etc

krschultz 11y ago

Do you think the results from this tool are HIGH? I went through a couple different apps I know and thought the estimate provided by the page needed to be multiplied by 3-5. The default rates are $56 an hour. For Android/iOS developers, I know a dozen people making $100-200 an hour. It's a great tool (and note you can actually adjust your price at the bottom), but I would consider all of the quotes around time & rate as the low end.

marpalmin 11y ago
As I mentioned earlier, it really depends on the country you are in. Outside US $100 - 200 per hours is ver high, even in most EU countries.
sokoloff 11y ago
duiker's comments were more along the lines of how he's been underquoting. Extremely common among early (or occasional) SWE freelancers IME, myself included. IME, you can get to a point where you tally everything up and it comes to $65K, and then you start thinking, well this would be a fun side gig, and I have some free time I otherwise waste, and I sure could buy something cool with even $25K (after tax), and some of my estimates might be a little on the fat side, and this is a buddy (or isn't well funded, or both), and coding is fun enough that I sometimes do it for free anyhow, so I'll bid $45K. And you've not accounted for the inevitable yak shaves, scope creep items, etc, but you got the work for $30K less than you should/could have.