Quote Originally Posted by codenewbie View Post
What is a $250 software to you?
What is a $2500 software to you?
What is a $10,000 software to you?

Your prices are all over the place, and its understandable, as no two software applications are the same... But what makes those programs valued at the prices you gave them?

I understand my questions was incredibly vague - just trying to get some rough ideas.

so... "For a software that can do X, I charge $250", or "For a software that can do X, Y and Z, I charge $2500+".
I'm not looking for the recipe to your secret sauce - I'm just trying to get an idea as to how you would price a particular project.
There are lots of factors other than what the software can do, such as how much time am I going to need to spend talking about it to get the details right. Is it a project I am going to enjoy doing and maybe learn something along the way. Is it a project were I can reuse existing code. Is there a potential to resell to other customers later. Is the customer asking for the source code. What mood I am in at the time

And of course how much time I think it will actually take to code the project, test and debug.