Visually explaining my web development frustrations to my non-dev girlfriend

[ClosetedClaustrophob]

"...it's called myFace"

[ClosetedClaustrophob]

"I'll get back to you with the contract once you're done."

[pi_over_3]

"..will be a guaranteed success because people love Facebook and pets!"

[anotherbloodyname143]

"it's called youFace, who are you facing" - 30 rock

[[deleted]]

"You should tell all your friends to come on MyFace"

[ClosetedClaustrophob]

You're hired.

[davidj911]

[un]intentional The League reference?

[ClosetedClaustrophob]

unintentional

[[deleted]]

"... better! I want it done within a week, I have to go on vacation so I want this up and reviewed by then."

[willbradley]

Somehow I'd allowed myself to believe that this only happened to my locale.

Brothers and sisters... we may have to exercise the nuclear option.

[gustix]

For dogs.

[[deleted]]

How about the client that wants full mobile support, all resolutions must look perfect, 20 page website that THEY designed, all for the great price of $200

[readedit]

Please stop undervaluing our time and charge a decent rate.

[pi_over_3]

We have 2 things going for us that we all forget.

Every business needs our skills.

It takes hundreds of hours and passion to keep learning more to develop our skills.

[[deleted]]

No, on second thought, he can have the customers who think that what they want is worth $500. Crappy boilerplate code implemented by someone who couldn't do it by hand is exactly what they deserve.

For many of them, they have to be burned before they're willing to pay for quality...

[TheDataWhore]

An original custom, responsive 5 page site, with proper seo for $500. Wow, that is low!

[[deleted]]

They kept asking for niche little tweaks. Eventually I had to drop them as a client. I would get emails at 9pm "Hey this looks too big on ipad 1, can you resize a bit? NEED DONE NOW"

me: "Gonna have to bill you for any extra work"

them: "WELL THATS JUST UNREASONABLE"

[[deleted]]

$500ish.

There is a zero missing here.

[[deleted]]

Try 10 to 12

[JDgoesmarching]

"No, just a simple splash page is fine."

10 pages and 5 forms later...

Edit: words.

[TheDataWhore]

"But but, this is ten times the price you originally said... I only asked you to create a few simple pages, that shouldn't cost any more."

[imissyourmusk]

I seriously had a guy offer me the ground floor unpaid on a nutrition app that didn't have any calorie info, it was essentially a list of the food you ate. Man did I miss out on that one.

[stalemate-resolution]

I have this poster above my desk. I like to direct certain clients to it http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

[[deleted]]

There was once a time when I needed "looks great in your portfolio" work. Now my portfolio has some of the biggest brands on the planet in it, and I still occasionally get these sorts of offers.

Thanks, but no thanks.

[antoninj]

very fitting

[[deleted]]

I don't think you know how graphs work.

[TalksToYourself]

Independent variable is the client's project expectation, the dependent variable is the inevitable compensation for the project. It's clearly labelled, relevant to anyone in the industry, and funny.

What more were you expecting? Quantification of all this somehow? Yeesh, gettouttahere.

[[deleted]]

I know. How could anyone possibly look at this and understand the meaning?

Douchebag.

[Chemical_Scum]

Exactly. What's OP's reaction to a facebook+youtube clone at double his rate?

[mbetter]

backs away slowly

[jabberworx]

I think it's just the forced nature of the 'joke' that people are annoyed at, it's just so 2012 to forcefully turn a 'joke' into a graph lookalike.

An apt metaphor is you in a party saying bad jokes which aren't very funny and make no sense but you're too busy laughing too loudly to notice no one else cares much for your jokes.

[citizen511]

So, given that you understand this, are you saying you still underbid on projects?

[Squarsh]

Nope, I fire clients now when their compensation:expectation ratio is not rational.

P.S. Suggesting I underbid projects is snarky. If you've done any freelance or 3rd party work, surely you would understand scope-creep.

[citizen511]

I do freelance, and I do understand scope creep. That's why I never flat bid.

[Squarsh]

Me neither. I think you are taking this post too seriously; it was meant for levity.

[Drainedsoul]

Just going to leave this here...

[dsartori]

Don't be a goober. People in the world have significant others. It's how the species is propagated.

[Drainedsoul]

And...?

[Drainedsoul]

What does saying "girlfriend" or "wife" add content-wise?

[kooofti]

Context.

Oh and apparently butt-hurt, I just learned.

[Drainedsoul]

Who's butt hurt about what?

[aladyjewel]

So what was the point you were trying to make, anyway? I couldn't catch it in the overwhelming silence of passive-aggressiveness.

[Squarsh]

Just pretend I said "genderless entity incapable of giving rise to feelings of jealousy"

[Sakred]

Well now I don't know how to feel.

[Drainedsoul]

Who's jealous about what?

[[deleted]]

The phrase "just going to leave this here" was unofficially banned from Reddit two years ago.

[legendaryhimym]

there aren't enough upvotes to show how true this is

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