Hi! This is A Minute Of Overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps. Now, this week I
want to talk about how "You should never tell anyone what your budget is."
Okay, so those of you who've been following me on Snapchat this last week know how much
I've been complaining about doing client works. So Overpass, we
have all our own apps. We make all our revenue through apps, but we also do
work for clients so people call us up and they'll say you know "We want an app
done" or whatever,
right? So you know and one of the things that I thought I would talk
about this week is some of you who have...who are going to contact a software
developer or an app developer and look for work to be done, I want to give you a
little bit of advice, right?
Sometimes they'll ask you what your budget is, and it's one of the big problems that I
have, right? If I'm working with another developer sometimes will
contract stuff out and the first thing they'll say is that "So Eric tell me what
your budget on this." right? and always I always think my budget is not your
concern, right? Asking someone about their budget is like saying "So
how much are you going to spend on this? and then I could tell you what you'll
get,
and that's like the wrong way around. What I think should happen is
you should go to a software developer and say you know "This is what I need.
How much will it cost for you to do this?" right? and then they'll have to... you know
because in their mind they have to start thinking "Well I don't want to out price.."
They don't want to out price you, I know this case since the the turmoil in my
head, right? is when I discuss requirements for the client
it's... I want to think about I don't want to lose any money on
this.
If the requirements are really vague, I want to have a little bit of
buffer in there so that we could cover those something unexpected comes up, but
the same time I don't want to be so high that I'll price them,
so you try to balance it that way. Now if I just come out and say tell me
what your budget is and you say my budget is 5000 pounds
then sure enough I could come up with something for 4995, right? but that's not
that's not the way things should work you should find out how much stuff costs,
right? and if you ask for something like say if you come to
Overpass and we say something will cost 5000 pounds you should go to
other developers too, and ask them you know how much will it cost you to do it?
'cause they might have more available resources at the time. They might have
developers that are just sitting around doing nothing and they'll be willing to
do it for for much less or for variety of reasons. It's always good
to get more than one quote, but if you know somebody who knows code a
little bit better it's good to have them around so they can make sure that things
are that you're not giving something to somebody is completely doesn't know what
they're doing, but this is just something I've been working with other companies
lately and they've been like "Hey ask them what their budget is.
Ask them what their budget is." and I'm like I'm not gonna ask that it's none of
my business.
So you when you contact a software developer,
whether be Overpass or whoever, right? so you contact anyone,
you should contact more than one for your app idea anyway,
but you know if they ask you what your budget is, it's none of their
concern or if anything so you go and really low because you have to consider
things that you might not have considered already like marketing,
marketing and marketing because that's something when you release in the app
store,
that's really really hard. So my advice this week, however brief and
rambling it is, is...
don't ever tell anyone your budget. It's not their business, it's your business and
they just have to tell you how much something is going to cost or at least
give you a ballpark so that if they're thinking thousands and you're thinking
hundreds then you clarify that early out without anybody wasting anyone's
time, but at the same time
it's all about the requirements not about the budget. So that's it for this
week. Hey if you've been following out Snapchat we've been trying to talk about
everything. Well, I've been trying to talk about things that come up app
related. Talking about my AdMob revenue each day and every time
we learn something new, and also answering questions from some people who
are contacted through Snapchat. So again this week, I encourage you to follow us
we're giving it a try now. Trying to put new snaps up there every day and
people seem to be enjoying it. So here's a little bit of summary of a
few of these random unedited snaps from this past week.
And my AdMob yesterday was really really low at 80 pounds only, that's
really really bad.
Yesterday we created our first get hub of public repository for a node-
MySQL backup and node.js.
This is meant for red meat but I might as well put it on to everybody.
The app incumbents like the sweetest because once you get it coming
in, it feels the best but much better than clients.
Man I hate getting this message every time I submit to iTunes. It's fine what it just
means 'cause I know to ignore it, but like with clients they'll always call me up.
Good morning everyone! It's wet and rainy here in England today. I've already
had one meeting at a client site to re-demo, what I demoed yesterday got
failed. The AdMob mediation masterclass webinar was pretty good. I think
the best thing I learned from that is the SDK-less mediation.
For those of you out there who use Ionic or even Corona SDK, it's best to
have like all your screen shots. When you do your screenshots you use an emulator
because it's so much faster.
So that's it, if that looks interesting to you, follow us. There's the snap code
here which is my Snap codename. My snapchat name is eric.wroolie
and that would be, you know, hey keep in touch throughout the
rest of the week, and again we're app developers or we were interested in app
so we kind of have to know what's out there and what's new,
what are the latest trends and all that kind of stuff. So that's the reason I'm
doing it so.
So that's it for this week. I hope this has been helpful, and I'll talk to you
next week.
Hey I really hope you liked that video. Now I do this once a week, so if
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that would be a big big big help, and another thing you could do, which I'd
really appreciate it. If you're on the app store and you want to try one of our
apps. Look up some of the Overpass apps. Applications either on iTunes or Google
Play, and leave a review and let us know what you think about it either good
or bad, but you know we're all trying to build up in the
market, so that would be a big help. So that's it. I'll talk to you next week!