How much does a freelance IT service cost? How to find out forks price \ (quality \u003d professionalism)?

Question

Freelance

Sometimes there is a need to estimate the cost of a particular task in varying degrees of abstraction in price \ [quality = professionalism] ranges without the need for implementation, or with a very remote need. (not in their working area) besides, the dollar is jumping, prices are changing ... Where - how to effectively obtain such information, maybe there are some monitoring somewhere .. Freelance sites do not always satisfy the need - since there are few details of the transaction and the quality of the result don't appreciate it. To create an application - half do not read what is written at all, or the forks come out very lengthy, and few people want to go into the criteria for their prices just like that, again, many ask to voice the budget, and everyone has subjective ideas about quality.

Answer 1

No way.
There are a lot of newbies on the exchanges (who know nothing) who are ready to work for food.
Therefore, no optimal indicators can be identified.
And not being a specialist in the field - you will not appreciate in any way.
It is possible to pay him for a consultation a little. Or maybe he will do it for free - people like to teach.
But, it is IMPORTANT that this specialist consultant be obviously cool.
Which one was RECOMMENDED to you.
Well, or just by trial and error (you’ll squander a lot of money, get ready).
Over time, your personal experience will accumulate. If you constantly order on the exchanges.
FORKS NO.
This is not the same product in different stores.
These are:
1. Very different people, with different qualifications and different self-esteem - that is, the work will be DIFFERENT, and not the same as a product.
2. These people can understand your work in different ways (someone is better, someone is worse and then ask for more money for improvements).
Who does not read - those immediately in the furnace. There is even a method: insert special words (passwords) into the description and ask them to name them in the application. If you don't name it, go straight to the furnace. If he does not even read the application (which may not corny correspond to his qualifications), then it is not worth working with him.
As for the lengthy forks: I'll tell you about my programming profession. The task should be described VERY CLEARLY and all boundary conditions should be very rigidly described so that you get a small fork. And it’s not even about the difference in self-assessment of the programmer’s qualifications (although this also happens), but that one person understood the task, the second understood it in his own way (simpler, cheaper), the third understood that the task was difficult, but named a small price, in the hope make a backbone for this amount, and then, when the client has nowhere to go, demand more money for improvements.
Detailed description - reduces these risks.
To voice the budget is because there are very different approaches to the same thing.
It is possible to make work so that it works right here and now, but would be difficult to adapt.
You can make the work so that it is flexible in use (and this flexibility may be needed in just a month).
And these will be 2 different in terms of the amount of work (at times), although outwardly it seems to be the same.
Not to mention the attention to detail (which affects the quality) - these little things can increase the cost of work at times.
These are not different qualifications, not even different prices of performers.
A completely different work - although it is called the same.

Answer 2

Price, quality and speed are not directly related.
Estimating how much it can cost is quite simple:
- either be a competent specialist yourself (and, accordingly, understand the amount of work in large strokes)
- or have a proven specialist who will give the first estimate for you

Answer 3

As you agree, so be it. These are services, there are no boundaries.

Answer 4

A normal assessment, and not a fork with broad strokes, is possible only with normal TK .... and this is work that should be paid

Answer 5

Read user Jaxel's answer here How to determine the true market value of a web application development project? this applies not only to large projects, but also to small tasks.

Answer 6

Consent is the product of non-resistance of the parties. You can make a business card for a million, if only they agreed to give the money.
Why are you talking about some forks and prices, these are not purchases, there are not a bunch of one product at different prices.
Just take the estimates of the number of freelancers, and by statistical calculations come up, then the true price is in the middle. But if you need service, then the true price is in the highest price category, and if you just do it, then your price is at the bottom.

Answer 7

And you can look at sites like hh.ru the average salary of the right specialist, estimate your level and calculate the cost of an hour of your work. And on the basis of this, voice the price.

Answer 8

Everything is not very simple. In principle, there is no price fork. In freelancing, as in the market, one fool sells and another buys. In recent years, the barrier to entry into programming (especially the Web) has fallen almost to zero. For example, the development of an Internet store can be entrusted to a neighboring schoolboy for packing sneakers and he can easily blind a certain monster from a bunch of other people's templates. At the same time, there is no guarantee that this craft will work, but you can get a lawsuit for theft of intellectual property. You can order the same thing in a hyped mega company for thousands of American money. It will be high quality, reliable, but expensive. And you can find a modest, unknown specialist, and for relatively little money he will do no worse than firms, or maybe no better than a student’s neighbor, it’s as lucky.
PS Well, as already mentioned - TK is the head of everything.