hackeronymous

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by hackeronymous 17y ago
Actually, no. But I can see why you would think that. I literally don't know the range of what is reasonable and what is not. Your comment is implicitly informative, though. Furthermore, if I was being boastful, I would probably not b
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
Am I missing something? Is what I said offensive in some way to someone? If so, would you please care to clarify?
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
why the downvote? It was an honest question.
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
Brilliant advice.
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
I should probably mention that even though I spent 20h/day working on it, I spent/spend virtually every waking hour either reading/writing/thinking about writing software/business. I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't party. I live wi
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
how much per hour would you say that it's worth?
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
Precisely. As well as the increased risk of having no contracts for long-stretches of time, and the additional overhead time of promotion, customer relations, etc.
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
It seems to me that you got seriously shafted on that deal. I don't think that the app I made was much more complex, i.e. I probably maybe spent 10x as much time as you did on that one, but I made 200x more money doing it. The pricing of
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
Oh, I see what you mean. It probably took about 1000 hours total, but spanned over a period of a year. So maybe 20 hours per week. I was just learning Rails at the time, so it took a bit longer than it otherwise would have. I could prob
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by hackeronymous 17y ago
The problem with billing by the hour is that developer performance varies by a factor of 10x or more, whereas hourly fees vary by about 5x. And most clients would not feel comfortable playing $250-$300/hour unless there was some way for the
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Ask HN: How much?
63 points by hackeronymous 17y ago|83 comments