Even if I was willing to pay this rate, I would worry whether his mind was really in it. For $1000/hr you would want someone with pretty specific skills really switched on and ready to work.
One Thousand Dollars an Hour
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#32Holy cow. If CheddarApp justifies a $1000/hour rate, then good programmers could easily justify $100k/hour or better. Lawyers who handle multimillion dollar deals can justify $1000/hour. Security specialists can justify $1000/hour. Some guy who makes a mediocre todo list application can't.
You might be under-estimating the incredible demand for mobile developers right now... especially talented mobile app developers who have proven themselves capable of building a well-built, polished iOS app.
Right now, the mobile dev market might actually allow a rate like this.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
CheddarApp is just ok. As a card carrying yearly CheddarApp subscriber, I can say that I've used it for a week and meh. I'm all for bringing up programmers' hourly rates but I think I'd want to have a little bigger feather in my cap than another to-do app before I tried a ploy like this.
I'm an android user and I don't know the man or the app. Is this really his only feather?
According to the About page [1], he created one of the first third-party iOS apps [2] which now has usage numbers in the millions, worked at the creators [3] of Hipstamatic [4] (a fairly well-known iOS app), has contributed a sizeable amount of open-source code [5], and has worked on a number of other projects [6].
[1] http://samsoff.es/about [2] http://www.youversion.com/mobile [3] http://heysynthetic.com/ [4] http://hipstamatic.com/ [5] https://github.com/samsoffes [6] http://samsoff.es/projects
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#34cheddar is a glorified to do list app come on bro...
No, it's a todo list app, period.
It doesn't pretend to be something else or more, so the 'glorified' here is meaningless.
That said, it doesn't matter what Cheddar is. He asks for that pay for iOS consulting in general, not for recreating his own app.
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#35What is the average hourly rate for high-level engineering consultation? It seems that's the service he's offering, and I don't really think he is overcharging.
About $350/hr
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#36Mike Lee did this 2 years ago
http://le.mu.rs/motherfucker/Entries/2010/6/24_What_money_ca...
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#37I don't think the rate is unreasonable, given the value of great advice. But I could see some internal techies at a company scoffing at a consultant who is using Rails to run his personal blog: https://github.com/samsoffes/samsoff.es
I'm not defending that scoffing, mind you, as playing around with frameworks is good initiative...but anyone who's been burned by a consultant/vendor who recommended a bazooka to kill a mosquito will be wary.
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#38Holy cow. If CheddarApp justifies a $1000/hour rate, then good programmers could easily justify $100k/hour or better. Lawyers who handle multimillion dollar deals can justify $1000/hour. Security specialists can justify $1000/hour. Some guy who makes a mediocre todo list application can't.
You don't get it. he can charge whatever he wants to. Nothing stops him for charging $10,000 per hour, just like Lady Gaga or Biber or some other crazy POPular artist would. Its really not about how much he asks; its about how many people can answer it. He tries to go against the current and assume 1 gig at $1,000/hr is better than 5 gigs at $200. It makes sense. I would love to see people paying for my work 5x more…
Exactly. Everybody in these comments is doing exactly what he said not to: debating the legitimacy of this price.
The reality is he's in a position to not need work, and is able to afford turning down 95% of potential employers. Good.
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#39Sam's resume:
http://assets.samsoff.es/pdf/Sam%20Soffes%20Resume.pdf
This, to me, is more surprising than the rate.
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#40If waffles cost $450, then $1000/hr wouldn't seem so unreasonable. Oh wait...
I should start measuring my income in waffles per hour.