I’ve been dabbling a bit in freelance web development lately - both front-end and back-end. It’s something that I really love to do, but I don’t have time to do it all that often. But this past semester at school, something happened to make me appreciate all of the nice clients that I’ve met out there.
For one of my classes we ended up doing a project with a local business, and part of that project was web development. I ended up having to do pretty much that entire portion of our project virtually alone. It was a lot bigger than any class project should be, and I ended up coding them an entirely customized php/mysql back-end.
I’ve done back-ends for other clients before, and they ranged anywhere from $200-$500 for JUST the back-end (no front-end content except for integration codes). And I just gave these people their back-end for FREE. And I want to cry now.