[consulting] iPhone App & Drupal Pricing Ballpark

[Greg Holsclaw]

Without knowing the specifics app, it can be a bit hard consider. For our
Dog Park Finder app,
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dog-park-finder/id362002678?mt=8 , (Drupal
backend, link for example we don't need more downloads doing fine as it) I
initially spec'ed it out and got 6 bids. Ranged from $3000 at $20/hr to
$18,000 at around $75/hr. The low end were all off-shore vendors with less
provable experience to high end established Houston based group.
 
We decided to do the dev in house (for a myriad of reasons,
cost/maintenance/desired in-house expertise..).With the learning curve it
was over 200 hours to develop (but that curve has spun out another app
already and another to come, all Drupal backend).  
 
If you are starting from zero iphone dev experience, you had better add a
huge pad to your total time estimate. There are many twists both in the
iPhone and Drupal intregration you will have to account for.
 
 If you client is willing to pay for both the product and the learning
curve, more power to you.
 
Greg
 
 
From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Josh
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:08 AM
To: consulting at drupal.org
Subject: [consulting] iPhone App & Drupal Pricing Ballpark
 
Hello Fellow Drupalers!
 
I'm starting iphone app development and have plans to make a Drupal-powered
back-end for some of the more mundane parts of the new iphone app (News,
Directory, Locations, etc).
 
Does anyone on this list have experience with marrying those two
technologies? Most of our websites start at 75 hours and go up from there
into the 600 hours range. (Think $7,500+ for our clients.)
 
When I estimate our time for an iPhone app, we're getting close to 130
hours+ 
 
Does this sound right? Do you think your clients would pay for iphone apps
in the $13,000+ range? To be honest, this feels high. But with very little
experience in the iPhone app world, this may be low.
 
My apologies if this message somehow violates the protocol for asking these
kinds of prices. I'm not looking for someone to do the work, I'm just
looking for some feedback who do this work as well.
 
Josh
 
 
Josh Miller WEB / TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
HAAN MARKETING+COMMUNICATIONS
T  (765) 423-5470          123 North 8th Street
F  (765) 742-2881          Lafayette, IN 47901
www.haanmc.com
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