I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019)

Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by testing22321 on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:53PM (#46471968)

Company I worked for wanted a new public website. In the end they paid over 3 million for a Drupal theme. Impressive waste of time and money.

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by bzmrgonz on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:42PM (#46472860)

That's got to be some kind of guines record. I'd like to see that theme.

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by testing22321 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:33PM (#46479940)

Www.nwtel.ca

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by monadoid on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:49AM (#46495974)

hello fellow yukoner, that is insane

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by Maxion on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:36AM (#46499194)

Not even close, let me tell you...

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by mattfrommars on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:11AM (#46495534)

Absolutely impressive, any idea how did your company find agency to build out the website and cashed out three million dollars?

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by madeofpalk on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:55AM (#46497359)

To be fair, most of us developers are out there building what amounts to over-engineered Drupal themes.

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by Nextgrid on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:04AM (#46497791)

Hertz says "hold my beer": https://www.henricodolfing.ch/case-study-8-how-hertz-paid-ac...

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by WackyFighter on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:38AM (#46499220)

I've been on similar projects where the client is paying through the nose to a consultancy. I was being paid about £500 a day for my time, but I am sure they were charging the client much more.

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Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) by 1-more on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:06PM (#46520758)

I got flown out and put up at a hotel for a week for a PR emergency (it was the 5th anniversary of a merger no one cared about but the new CEO wanted to do something about it) ultimately to make a wordpress site. Everything on my expense report got marked up some percent and passed off to the hiring company. I maybe got a little bonus for the whole thing, so not terrible? Not great. I read Bullshit Jobs a little bit later and it hit a little close to home.

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