Need developer: PHP and MySQL

Anon

The project I need your programming expertise for is similar to a
real-estate web site: a web-based database called "LandBase" that will help non-profit
landtrusts across Massachusetts advertise conservation land that is for
sale, allow interested buyers to see what's available, and facilitate the
first contact between buyers and landtrusts. Eventually the service may be
expanded to list properties nationwide. In the first year they expect to
have about 50-100 property listings in the database.

some preliminary pages to look at are at
http://members.home.net/xtian3/landbase

The whole thing should be set up with MySQL and PHP; the hosting service
that I contracted for the site supports both.
(They support PHP4.0.2 and MySQL 3.23 on Linux)

Please reply with a ball park estimate of how much you would charge - it's a project on a very limited budget...

Thanks!

Christian

mbritton72

What's the deadline? I would charge roughly $45 / hr. for PHP/MySQL development work and a flat fee for graphics.

Is there maintenance, or would I be handing it off?

Anon

Ya I can do that for $1000 flat. If u're interested just reply here. I saw your site.

Anon

I 'm interested in your project. How long about deadline.? I will charge you about $40/hr. But
It doesn't inlcude graphic design. It only php and mysql programing.
you can see my company web site at
http://www.allthailandhotels.com
and
http;//www.guidescenter.com

but it just begin , I 'm updating it.

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To the hiring:
Don't ever agree to pay an hourly rate.
Instead, agree on a fixed price for the project. If you pay an hourly rate, and the person you hired can't get it done in time, you'll have to pay more, or at least get into a fight about how much extra it will cost.
With a fixed price, there's no discussion and if the person you hired can't get it done, it's his problem.

To the hired:
$40/h is just about the limit for a job this simple, and it shouldn't take you longer than 24 hours. Thats 960 bucks and that's the top rate for this project.

So far, only kidisgood gave a figure like that, but he doesn't have a profile and doesn't refer to any previous work.

Willet's profile says he doesn't really know PHP yet, so where he gets the $45/h is beyond me.

Aek doesn't have a profile, but the mentioned websites look good (the second one is so-so, but he's working on that apparently) So his requested $40/h seems justified.

Anon

$40 an hour!!! I charge £80 UKP for ANY work... thats about $130 an hour... maybe the US market is saturated...

Anon

other than that I also work for beer and information 😉

kparker

Vincent and Carl,

It very much depends on what you are hiring. The lower rates sound like what I'd expect to pay for a person with some experience joining an existing project, where the overall design and project management is handled by someone else--in other words, a coder. Carl's rates are more what I'd expect to bill a customer if they expected us to do everything, including managing the project.

Since this latter seems to be more what Christian is looking for, I'd suggest trying to recruit an experienced person who believes in your organization and its non-profit cause to donate some time. If you have to pay full market rates, it's not going to be cheap.

mbritton72

Or somewhere between cheap and exorbitant, provided you find someone in your own organization who can help with the footwork necessary in managing the project. Generally you don't want your coder running around, for obvious reasons.

Anon

Vincent, Carl, Kirk and Mike:
thank you all for your input! It helped me a lot to get some neutral feedback about this job and will definitely improve my chances of negotiating a fair deal (and confirmed that I wasn't insane with my expectations).

I am the designer and manager of this project and have just lost the coder I was planning to use due to the long delay in getting this baby off the ground. Thanks to this forum it seems that the project will progress as planned - so thank you again!

Christian

Anon

Kirk,
I think the situation is somewhere in between the two scenarios you describe: I have the site and all transactions spec'ed out pretty thoroughly and the person I am looking for wouldn't have to gather information from all over the place. However, I need someone who doesn't come to me with code questions. Thanks for your perspective!

Christian

Anon

Please send me some sample URLs of your work!

Thanks,
Christian

Anon

Ok, i'll charge $700 flat. See my work at http://www.nepalshop.com/b2b. It was my first work with PHP. I'm working on another project that's a bit advanced than that.