Re: How much would you charge for this? £5k? £15k? £50k?

Hi Euan,

Cheers for that. It's my first Django project and I think in hindsight
I should have started on something a little easier. Nevermind. It's
been a good learning experience.

Before they told me the spec, they said they thought it would cost
about £3k!

Cheers

ALJ

On Jun 21, 4:12 pm, "euan.godd...@googlemail.com"
<euan.godd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It sounds like your project is pretty fully featured and if you claim
> to be "inexperienced" in Django development this much work is pretty
> impressive on a part-time basis over 6 months!
>
> Currently the Django project I am working on has taken over 2.5 years
> (and is ongoing). Although we don't just do Django, it's what we do
> most of the time. Our application has 213 models with 78742 lines of
> python code. I would estimate (although this is a bit of a guess) that
> the developer cost for this has been approximately £350k.
>
> You might be able to scale that to your workload.
>
> Hope that helps, Euan
>
> On Jun 21, 10:12 am, ALJ <astley.lejas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm just starting out with Django so using an hourly rate isn't really
> > applicable because I'm going to be much slower that a 'real'
> > developer. So far I've spent about 6 months part time.
>
> > What kind of ballpark amounts would people suggest this is worth?
>
> > I'm not going to tell you how much they think it was ... well maybe
> > I'll tell you later. I'm trying to help them out so it's considerably
> > cheaper than I think it should be.
>
> > What is it?
> > The application is helps the sales staff organize product
> > demonstrations around the country. They can book demonstrators to do
> > an event. The demonstrators do the events and then enter the details
> > of how it went. The system provides invoice generation, event tracking
> > and custom reporting.
>
> > Features
> > - Dynamic questionnaire and report form generation into pdf.
> > - Dynamic invoice generation into pdf.
> > - Work-flow with page locking, rollback and automatic email generation
> > on status change.
> > - Daily (and horribly complex) automatic summary excel reports
> > - Sales and questionnaire summary reports
>
> > - Designing and building the site
> > -- Models (about 32)
> > -- Setting up the admin interface
> > -- 12 key views plus goodness knows how many auxiliary views.
> > -- Look and feel
>
> > Other activities
> > - Weekly automatic importing of data from another accounting database
> > - Importing of existing event data.
> > - Importing of product prices and rates, existing staff details,
> > demonstrator details,
> > - Finding and setting up a VPS host
> > - Installing and configuring the site
> > - Support for a year (occasional changes, bug fixes and helping them
> > settle in)
> > - Training materials
>
> > ... and this doesn't even take into account the changes they made
> > halfway though. I should have been more formal with the spec but I
> > know them and didn't think it would be necessary. Once bitten ....
>
> > Appreciate this is a bit finger in the air, but like I said ...
> > ballparking.
>
> > ALJ

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