I need your advice about project requested to me(urgent)

[HACKERGY]

Hello all,

I hope that i'm in the right place.

Some one was asking me to do a project like this:

The main idea is like a website for agents of the hotels.

It is a website that has at the beggining a login screen (DB) then the agent see a list of options to search for rooms in all the hotels availble (agent put some criteras for room(s) wanted,like the desired period to stay in the room(s) and its type) , then a page comes that has a list of availble rooms, then the agent can book that room (click on it or something) then an e-mail is sent to the agent to confirm that the booking is done and another e-mail is sent to admin,and after that the room that is selected will be shown as reserved(or it even doesn't have to show at all). Aslo with the project there should be a control panel to add new availble rooms and stuff like that.

The programming language used is VB .Net, so how much would a project like this would cost money and time ?
If someone can do this tell me please so i can put all the details needed.
Note: The design of the pages is ready and done in HTML.

I hope that you can help me please.
Thanks.

[HACKERGY]

I got the job i will get about 200$ wow

I still want to hear ur advices guys.

[MrNorth]

Without knowing anything about the technology involved I would say about 200-350 hours of work... Depending on how advanced you need the database object model...

When you outline the app it sounds pretty "standard", I have done many of those...

Although still many aspects to consider...

kind regards
Henrik

[Shaggy Hiker]

If the interface is already taken care of, which you imply, then the rest of the work is proabably a bit smaller. I always find the interface to be the biggest time sink.

Do you mean that you are getting paid $200 for the whole project Can you get the thing done in a day?

[MrNorth]

At the company I work we charge our customers average 70 USD/hour.. but that involves professional .net development and development cycles... not just writing apps but the who cycle from UML to deployment... Many customers want a lot of functionality, but are unwilling to pay the price... they think it is unreasonable to even test the software... "just program" they say... "I want the app as soon as possible"... god forbid...

Good software cost... and professional programmers must have the guts to charge accordingly...

kind regards
henrik

[Shaggy Hiker]

Amen.

I have heard it described as a triangle. The vertices are: Low Cost, Quick Delivery, and Good Quality. At most, you can have two, but never three. Often you only get one, and occaisionally you get none.

[HACKERGY]

Hi guys

Thanks for your replys

Shaggy Hiker : Yes i'm getting 200$ for the whole project ..... and i think if there are now problems i can done it in two days or so. Is that bad or what man ?

Please tell me what to do ...... i have no idea about pricing ..... even i asked the person how much do you want to give me ? and he said i dunno - how much do u want ? i said about 200$ ! and then he said ok , and i will try to even give you more !

Guys , maybe i have to say that i'm in the Middle East region , and that can effect the pricing so much, "Third World"

I don't know what to do. I didn't start working on the project because i'm still waiting for the details from the customer.


Thanks for the talk.

[LabtroRob]

As you've pointed out, pricing is so subjective to region.

$200 for that whole project seems low regardless however.

The better thing to do would be to estimate how much time it will take, then determine how much it is worth to you to spend that time on it.

Guaranteed it will take much longer than you think though. Even to make a small change will take 10 hours or so, with testing (which you want to do as much of as possible), determining the fix, and actually doing it.

[techgnome]

$200 for an entire project like that is definatly too low.

I would have had the following:
$300 jsut to start, plus time and materials, and that gets you the first 8 hours. After that it would have been $50-70/hr.

Then there's a stiff penalty for changes midstream (like that never happens )

MrNorth - only $70??? Man, what a bargain. Our rate is $125/hr.

TG

[HACKERGY]

Thank you very much for sharing info man. Do you have a company or these prices for where you work?

Hmm ..... It looks like i underestemited my skills


Any body knows some rules for example to price my project? or it depends on the company ?

That is really confusing.

[hellswraith]

Our company rate is $105 an hour. This is in Washington State, USA.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm a biologist, not a programmer. My rate is a helluva lot cheaper than anything mentioned here, but I managed to get burned on just the kind of deal you are talking about. Figure an hourly cost, and go from there.

[HACKERGY]

Thank you guys for advising