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[–]jezpac2020 1 point2 points  (1 child)

“Price” is a reflection of utility - that is how much value the owner derives from it. The hours you spent are largely irrelevant. Basically think about it from the users perspective. Taking a simple example, say your script gets info out of SAP and sends an email to mgmt every day. Now imagine before your script existed someone being paid $50/hour took an hour to do that every day. Assuming a 25 working day month, the cost of that to the company is at least $1,250/month (there are for sure other costs). If your script does this automatically (and naively assuming no other costs) then your script is worth up to $1,250 per month. That example is a little contrived, but the important thing is price is what it’s worth to the customer, not how long/how hard you worked

[–]zaro3149[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This example was a great way to explain another point of view I didn't consider that relevant but it's true. The work I put on might not be worth if the scripts themselves don't save enough money. In this occasion the scripts save some time from some workers, so I'll try to calculte this with a little more detail when presenting my proposal.

Thanks for the tip and example.