in reply to How much is an web-based application worth?

I haven't been told about what I need to specifically do but they told me the application would consist of 8 custom decent size forms (10-25 fields), user/pw for data inputters, an admin section that can add/delete user, change pw, and view reports of data generated. It would also include about 7-8 search functions (search by date, inputter, product name, client name , etc).

You haven't been given enough information to have any idea what the application will do. 80 to 200 form fields across 8 screens should be enough to implement a huge range of complex web applications! Hell, you could implement a reasonable subset of Krang within those limits. (Krang took 4 programmers around 7 months to complete.)

How much should I charge them?

From what you've said I think it's a fair bet that you're not experienced enough to make a fixed fee bid for a project this large. Instead I suggest you shoot for something based on the time it actually takes you to complete the project. Feel free to make an estimate but do yourself a favor and don't bet any money on it!

-sam

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Re: How much is an web-based application worth?
by perleager (Pilgrim) on Mar 17, 2005 at 07:18 UTC
    Hello,

    thanks for the reply.

    See thats the thing. Basically a person I know is telling me about this project. He as of now pays me fifteen dollars an hour to work on such a project. This project will probably take me several months (5-7 months). He pays me weekly according to the number of hours I work.

    But the thing is that he negotiates the deal with the company that wants this custom database application. I was asking this question to have some idea about how much hes making and whether or not I'm getting screwed by gettin paid 15 dollars an hour for this type of job.

    Thank you,
    perleager
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      It's hard to know if you're getting screwed without a few more variables. Where do you live? How much experience do you have?

      -sam

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