Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/19/07 10:43

Willem Bogaerts wrote:


> Also, this situation means that they want to trust you. Don't abuse it.

That's a core reason why I'm a little hinky about this project.

It's the ultimate contractor question:
"What's the best way to calculate charges - from the cost of production,
or the value to the customer?".

I'm not gonna just play Pong in their cubicles for a paycheck. I know
people who do that, and I don't know how they can bear to waste their
time like that.

But on the other hand, I don't wanna sell an app for a mere few hundred
bucks if there's an honest opportunity to make some more serious coin.


> Is your current working framework something you built yourself? If so,
> this sounds like a freebie. You can charge them for the use of it. In
> either hours (that you can spend on something else) or plain money.

Well - it's more of an open source thing, with me as the only developer.
I'm not comfortable managing licenses yet. Probably won't be until I
can get Zend Guard and an SSL cert. paid for a couple of years.

Instead, I'm taking the profit another way - The idea behind building
the framework was that I could justify twice the rate, by developing in
a quarter of the time - and everybody makes out.

Then, later as I can demo plug-ins for and upgrades to the framework, I
can go back to those folks for a little extra juice.

I would prefer a nice, royalty deal, but I think that's a little too
complex for me.

I'm a fine code-monkey, but a lousy bidness-man.

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