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Actually, no. But I can see why you would think that. I literally don't know the range of what is reasonable and what is not. Your comment is implicitly informative, though. Furthe…

Am I missing something? Is what I said offensive in some way to someone? If so, would you please care to clarify?

why the downvote? It was an honest question.

Brilliant advice.

I should probably mention that even though I spent 20h/day working on it, I spent/spend virtually every waking hour either reading/writing/thinking about writing software/business.…

how much per hour would you say that it's worth?

Precisely. As well as the increased risk of having no contracts for long-stretches of time, and the additional overhead time of promotion, customer relations, etc.

It seems to me that you got seriously shafted on that deal. I don't think that the app I made was much more complex, i.e. I probably maybe spent 10x as much time as you did on that…

Oh, I see what you mean. It probably took about 1000 hours total, but spanned over a period of a year. So maybe 20 hours per week. I was just learning Rails at the time, so it took…

The problem with billing by the hour is that developer performance varies by a factor of 10x or more, whereas hourly fees vary by about 5x. And most clients would not feel comforta…

I am using an anonymous account for this post. Indeed, I registered this account solely for the purpose of this post. Sorry, pg. I have been freelancing for almost a decade, and I …