How much you pay for custom PHP work?

wankmaster · 2005-08-25, 03:59 AM

I found over the years that working for clients is seldom worth the trouble. After agreeing a price most want other stuff done for free on the grounds that "it was obvious I needed that".

So you either specify it all ( which they don't want to pay you to do ) or they specify it all ( which they don't know how to do ).

I do a few small jobs now and then for friends gratis ( they owe me a favour ), and some scripts for my own use that I later release as freeware if they are generally useful, but that's it. I find people expect programmers to work for nothing as "software should be free". Try getting a model and photographer to do you a shoot for free....

Maybe better spend your time writing packages scripts that have a general use, but even so they don't sell for more than a few $, so you need to hit on something that a lot of people need and are willing to pay for, or code up your own projects and websites and use your skills that way.

2005-08-25, 03:59 AM	#8
wankmaster Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand! Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 96	I found over the years that working for clients is seldom worth the trouble. After agreeing a price most want other stuff done for free on the grounds that "it was obvious I needed that". So you either specify it all ( which they don't want to pay you to do ) or they specify it all ( which they don't know how to do ). I do a few small jobs now and then for friends gratis ( they owe me a favour ), and some scripts for my own use that I later release as freeware if they are generally useful, but that's it. I find people expect programmers to work for nothing as "software should be free". Try getting a model and photographer to do you a shoot for free.... Maybe better spend your time writing packages scripts that have a general use, but even so they don't sell for more than a few $, so you need to hit on something that a lot of people need and are willing to pay for, or code up your own projects and websites and use your skills that way.