Not requesting, but looking for a quote
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Think of Dyno, Mee6, YAGPDB, Mimu and OWO bot all in one.
That's what I am basically looking for with full configurability and a complete dashboard.
Still think it's $100-150?
For a low quality developer you will find this for between $50-$100. Someone who will actually put time into this project as well as making sure its bug-free... most likely between $150-$250. Would also vary based on the full list of commands you are expecting this to be equipped with, so with that... complexity can also be a factor with the price.
So pretend I hired you to make this and you had the capabilities to provide a good quality bot with all the features I requested and similar/same commands of the bots I mentioned above, how much would you charge?
I would want a complete list of the features / commands you want before I set anything in stone. As a rough estimate.. probably closer to the $300 range if I'm being entirely honest. And that's mostly just for the time I'm dedicating to it as it's a BIG project.
Edit: with the list of features / commands it could possibly even bring the price down.. as said complexity is also a factor regarding pricing of features and commands.
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I would be very happy to complete this project for 150$. You can dm me for my Portfolio. Here is a brief web dev portfolio: . Why am I charging so less? One of my friends birthday is coming up and I would like to buy them a gift, so wouldn’t hurt to under charge for a project just to get the job done. But if you are not satisfied with the product you can ask for a refund. I can almost guarantee you, you won’t be disappointed
My discord is Ribu#0001
Over $300 if you want something quality
All of these quotes are really low balling the cost of anything related to full-stack development. Sure, if you would like to have a dashboard that looks like garbage because the developer only knows how to use the "background-color" property in CSS then maybe a $300 budget for the bot and website combined might be able take you there with a miracle of epic proportion. Burn out will likely happen because both you and the developer are not considering a things like:
There isn't enough time for you to answer all of these questions in a single thread, and nobody expects that you do. I'm being overly-idealistic with expectations and a dick in order to make a point. Questions like these get answered before being asked most of the time based on an inherent understanding of the project. When you're vague with your description, though? These unanswered questions float around in developers' heads and it makes it difficult if not impossible to make an accurate quote for you.
TL;DR: Fifty features and a dashboard might only cost you a few hundred dollars if you want super straight forward stuff. However, it might also cost you several thousand depending on what needs to be done and at what level of quality. Make a Google doc outlining the features that you want and what they do. Give developers the document and you'll get much more precise and accurate quotes.
Edit: Why are there web developers necroing threads made a month ago?
- Hosting. How is your end project going to be hosted? If your network of Discord servers is massive, you're going to need sharding on your Discord bot and a developer who knows what that is. Will your bot and/or dashboard have a lot of influx in usage? You might consider having a Kubernetes cluster which is able to dynamically handle your demand. If you want the load balancer for Kubernetes you will either have to buy cloud hosting from big tech companies (think Google Cloud, AWS, Azure) or build the load balancer from scratch. All of that costs money. You might be able to go without all of that entirely if you know how much traffic you are going to support and are able to articulate that to a developer in a meaningful way.
- Storage and Caching. You have data needs, how are you going to store and access that data over time? Are you pulling data from third party APIs? You'll likely need Redis or something similar to cache responses to your calls. What sort of persistent storage are you looking for? Have you looked at any technologies like SQL? If so, do you trust your developer enough to let them make the choice on what to use? Outlining your features more accurately will better allow a developer to assess your infrastructure needs when it comes down to a project like this.
- Authentication. How are you going to ensure people are who they say they are? A login system is probably in your future. Is your authentication using an OAuth2 APIs to get in (think "login with Google/Facebook/Discord/etc.")? Do you want a credential-based login? If you want credentials, is your account tied to an email? Do you want to confirm the email? Do you want people to be able to reset their password? All of those things take work, and they are uncertainties when quoting.
- Authorization. How are you going to restrict authenticated people from using certain features that shouldn't be available to them? For your network of Discord servers, does each server owner need to have an account? Are the settings for the bot global or local to a single server? If the settings are localized to a server, how does a server owner with several servers switch between his settings? (That's a mouth full!) Should a server owner be able to let his staff members modify settings on the bot? If so, how does the server owner make accounts for them? What is the process that they use to get added to the server's settings page? Will the server owner have access to roles in the website which changes the permissions of multiple users simultaneously? How does the server owner remove people from their server settings when they should no longer have access in cases like a demotion?
- Commercialization. Are you trying to sell this bot off as a product? You'll need a landing page—and likely a sizeable quantity of actionable features which you can list—to sell people on your idea. Who is going to write the pretty words that coax your buyers-to-be into swiping their credit card? Will that be you or a creative writer? How do you want people to pay for this? Is it subscription based? Have you considered that the developer will likely charge you more for re-sale rights on their work? Are you using PayPal to accept payments, and if so do you have a business account to use in your production environment?
- Look and Feel. Regardless of whether or not you're selling it to the masses, nobody wants to look at something ugly—don't try to convince yourself otherwise! You are going to have to pay premium if you want a beautiful looking end product. You'll need a...: logo, color scheme, general branding guide, etc. Are you going to hire a designer to make these things for you or will you make them yourself? Maybe the developer is supposed to image those things for you. You'll probably also need icons. Will you use out of the box icons or are you paying a designer to make your logos as well? On top of that, should your bot and/or backend developer be the one to implement the beautiful front-end idea that your designer puts out? Unless your bot developer also specializes in web development, you might need an additional developer or a tool like InVision to do the work getting your designer's vision into something you can point a DNS record at.
- Project Management. How are you going to ensure that your team member(s) are on track? You need actionable tasks which you can have quoted by timeframe and then have organized into and accounted for in your business plan. You might be able to get by without tasks outlined, but you and your developer's quality of life will dramatically improve if you can see the direction you're going in the long run. Someone needs to write out those tasks, will that be you or will you hire a technical writer to better articulate your idea in a concise way? Will you use Jira or will you use a clone of it like ClickUp, Wrike, and Trello? Are you actually willing (and able) to do coordination between your developer, designer, and creative writers? Unless you're great with people and click well with your team, you might consider buying a project manager. That's a cost to either your time or your wallet. A bad manager can be the single thing that dooms a project. Nobody wants a bad boss.
There isn't enough time for you to answer all of these questions in a single thread, and nobody expects that you do. I'm being overly-idealistic with expectations and a dick in order to make a point. Questions like these get answered before being asked most of the time based on an inherent understanding of the project. When you're vague with your description, though? These unanswered questions float around in developers' heads and it makes it difficult if not impossible to make an accurate quote for you.
TL;DR: Fifty features and a dashboard might only cost you a few hundred dollars if you want super straight forward stuff. However, it might also cost you several thousand depending on what needs to be done and at what level of quality. Make a Google doc outlining the features that you want and what they do. Give developers the document and you'll get much more precise and accurate quotes.
Edit: Why are there web developers necroing threads made a month ago?
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