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A comment on Ask HN: Built an app for my university. Faculty loved it. Should I charge them?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Built an app for my university. Faculty loved it.... by KhoiUna on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:40AM (#31883858)
It’s not a big app. I spent like 50+ hours making the app. So charging thousands is out of their budget.
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Re:Ask HN: Built an app for my university. Faculty loved it.... by hazmazlaz on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:48PM (#31898927)
It's not a factor of how long it took you to make it, but the value of it to the end user. If (in a contrived example) it took you 1 hour to create but saved the end user many hundreds of hours of expensive labor, it could be worth a great deal. Think about the output instead of the input when pricing your creation!
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Re:Ask HN: Built an app for my university. Faculty loved it.... by jmathai on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:01PM (#31898251)
Don't make the mistake of assuming the hours spent is correlated to the amount they will spend.

I'm not saying they will spend thousands of dollars but you might be surprised how big their budgets are and the numbers they are used to.

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