Comments on: A non technical Guide to Web Applications creation: Costs and Times involved

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:39:43 +0000

Hi Roberto,

Thanks for this article. It answered a few of my questions.
I am currently trying to start a new project which will be my first. Trying to gather people who are willing to participate for fun and experience. If the app takes off, an equal share in profits

By: Roberto

Roberto — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:20:09 +0000

@Patrick: You have an interesting blog there, I hope you’ll keep developing both, your web app and blog about it.

@Tony: That’s absolutely true. In fact in my case I have developed all my web applications doing almost everything by myself, so my expenses where primarily time instead of money.

By: Tony Y.

Tony Y. — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:39:04 +0000

Things are different from case to case. Sometime you have to hire somebody to do it, sometime it’s not neccessary. But it’s good to learn these gerneral rules.

By: Patrick B.

Patrick B. — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:13:19 +0000

If you want to see a web application project being developed, drop by my sites at http://www.peabee.com/blog

It’s a web video mashup and I’m using some techniques not listed here to drive traffic and awareness (this response included!). The blog tracks the application development in real-time so you can see some of the challenges involved in starting your own web app (as well as some of the rewards )

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:48:26 +0000

Yup, I absolutely agree with you. $25 is a low hourly fee and you must pay for quality.

Unfortunately I know, as an experienced developer, that in general people don’t pay for quality. They try to pay the lowest possible price to get something good enough to sell. They don’t care if it’s good or not. At least that’s the way software development business runs in Spain and in some parts of Latin America, I know that in USA things are different.

Thanks for your comment!

By: @Roberto

@Roberto — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:25:08 +0000

$25 an hour for a quality developer is really a low in general. We are a US based company and we’re $110 hourly for design and development. I think you pay for quality no matter the location of your developer. Its hard to put a price on service, loyalty and working with a company that can give you constructive feedback on ideas and the process of the project.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:59:08 +0000

@Frederick: Well, that’s the point of blogging

@Josh: Have you ever looked for indian/ukranian/etc programmers’s hourly fee? It can be even cheaper

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:53:15 +0000

$25/hr for programmers??? Are you kidding me???

By: Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:25:55 +0000

Hi Roberto, this is a great post. I’ve been teaching our clients things along these lines for years and you just gave away quite a bit of it!

Cheers!

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:27:14 +0000

It depends on your developer’s expertise, but languages that are known to work great in web apps are good choices: PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.