In what ways do you determine product price when you are about to launch your new product? Examples: Matching competition? Less than competition? More than competition? Making a price based on calculating a plan to recover your own costs? ... ...
I have written a small laptop battery meter utility for Windows that I have been selling for a low price ($7.50). I recently was contacted by a company that wants to purchase a very large number of licenses (nearly 1,000). They would like an unlimited site license to avoid having to manage the number of licenses. My questions is, what...
I want some inputs/tips on quoting the cost to a Client. If I am developing a web site with medium level of complexity and time to develop is say 2 months and 1 resource is required. What is the difference in pricing when the Client 1)does and 2)does not require ownership of the code. ...
I have taken a job selling a customized "online workplace management application." Our clients' businesses work around the application. Our clients track their time (which is how they get paid), finances and work documents through the application we provide and give their clients access to their interests throught the application. Our...
As I wrote the title to this question, I reworded it a handful of times because I'm hoping to get good, well thought out feedback from the community. Not just "off the cuff" answers of emotion. Over the span of my career, I've been witness to, and a part of, many situations where there was a need for a particular software tool. However,...
I am looking for a method to decide on the price for a J2EE project that we developed. I know of COCOMO model but dont know if there are any tools/plugins (preferably on eclipse) to calculate the cost. A very naive method of deciding the cost of development would be to associate a price to every Kilo Line of Code. If this is right, how m...
I finished building an app that allows beaming of photos, contacts and text clips over Wi-Fi IPhone to IPhone and IPhone to desktop. I want to decide on the feature set of the lite version of my IPhone app. I also want to come up with a pricing model. So the question is, which of these components should be free, and for which I should...
I am making a web ordering system for a small seafood distribution company. This is my first gig making a website professionally. I have no idea what to charge or what my work is worth. How do I figure out how much to charge these people? ...
What's the cheapest way to upgrade from standard VS2008 to VS2010? I looked on the web and it looked like they wanted a monkey for it (£500). This seems steep for an individual wanting to upgrade using taxed money. ...
I always had trouble with estimating cost/price of finished software (or programming work), so here are two questions about it. question 1: You're asked to write a piece of code for cash (all rights to the code belongs to buyer once you're done). You know approximate number of hours it will take (+-25%), and approximate complexity (i....