Hey, Eric.
Excellent to know what the market range for Flash is right now. I had
seen lower, but would rather start proposals with that higher cost in
mind.
We’ll have to figure out what we want to do about the server box. That
may become and internal IT project.
Thank you, as always, for the input.
Daniel
On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:12 PM, eric socolofsky wrote:
> setting up the server is something you should get a different dev to
> do than the flash front-end. you may be able to find someone to do
> both, but that’s a fairly uncommon pairing of skills, and someone
> with both is likely to be a bit deficient in one or the other.
>
> $65-80 is *definitely* on the low-end. however, this is for a
> museum (right?), so you can probably still attract devs at a lower
> rate. high-end flash dev rates (like for advertising work) run up
> to $120-$150; startup and smaller companies can probably get away
> with $90-$120. non-profits, educational, museum, perhaps down to
> $75-80, but that’s pretty damn low.
>
> note that these rates are for *professionals*, experienced
> contractors who make their living on this kind of work. students
> and junior programmers, you can of course knock big chunks off those
> amounts.
>
> -e
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Daniel Bartolini wrote:
>
>> Hello List-
>>
>> I’m trying to figure out what the going hourly/contract rate for a
>> job would be. It’s kind of a two part thing:
>>
>> 1. Take data (in XML form) from a logger (hooked up to a solar
>> panel on the roof of a building in this case), run it over a
>> private LAN to a dedicated box that would have to be set up as a
>> web server (setup is part of the job).
>>
>> 2. Create a Flash app that will visualize the logger-data in a TBD
>> way (but definitely kid friendly) and publish a publicly accessible
>> page (served from the private box) that is also linked from the
>> company web site.
>>
>> Some graphic design has been settled, but asset creation will be
>> part of the process, as will a lot of on-site debugging.
>>
>> I know the Flash people have mentioned starting at $65-$80/hr for
>> this kind of thing (and going up from there depending on the
>> project), but I have no idea what the rate for setting up the
>> server box would be in conjunction with the Flash app.
>>
>> Thank you very much for any thoughts.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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