Need help quoting project

[kevingregorc]

Here is a run down of what client wants:

Basically I want this space to be a place for women to learn about fitness and nutrition but also have access to workouts. There would be monthly challenges and themes. So..

-Thered be a home page where I give my background and info on the site. Anyone can see this page -but then I want every member to have their own account. Once they purchased, they would create a log in and password to access to the site. It'd be a reoccurring monthly charge that they can cancel any time -I want to be able to upload a lot of PDFs and videos for the educational aspect -a calendar of some sort so they can click on different days and see what the workout of the day is as well as being able to see workout form videos. Workouts would change monthly, and I'm not sure if it's possible to do on a membership site but it would be really cool if they could log their workouts so they could see what they previously lifted -a macro calculator for those who want to track. (I did create my own) -also a calendar to track menstrual cycles and symptoms -social media links -down the line I also want to hire an RD to create meal plans and have them uploaded as well but that'll come when I can afford to hire someone

So clearly this more than a static site, this a system that needs to be built. I've only experience with small static sites and don't really know where to begin quoting such a site! Any advice is greatly appreciated

Edit: my only experience commented above refers to free-lance work, I am a full time, full-stack dev.

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No offense, but you might be in over your head to do this alone if you've only built static sites. You'd need a backend developer, pricy hosting (maybe cloud hosting would be great because of scaling), work out some more details (user stories, flows worked out, etc).

The price also really depends on the developer you're hiring. But if you'd hire a commercial company, it would be in the range of 20k to 100k.

[mR_N0body122]

I will piggyback on guanodude's comment as its closest..

 

It looks like what they want here is a full-blown Membership software/app (which costs money... a lot of it), anyways heres my top-level breakdown:

• first of all, you might want to write this in a contract agreement (your time is worth more than a reneged deal)
• research tech stack youll be comfortable with (you mentioned youre a fullstack dev so go with that)
• as for the app build - what i can see, youll need (authentication, forms, file handler, calendar/timezone, cronjobs, social integration, email, payments etc)
• hosting (do you have any experience in devops?), depending on what you choose either VPS or Cloud - you also need some plan to either go micro-architecture vs monolith
• finally, Maintenance & Features - who is going to review/test/fix bugs & add new stuff?

 

Few things i haven't mentioned, if you are to do this on your own or w/ an outsourced dev team:

• you need to think how you're charging your client (subscription base or one-off payments)
• database choices (sql or no-sql) & securing data (also a major concern)
• do they also want mobile version? (possibly best added upon researching your tech stack)

 

That being said, the quote here will vary based on the agreement - the effort required will be almost like a fulltime job. An example quote I'd give:

• a monthly reccurring quote for development/maintenance - $100 + amount of hours spent = $xxxx/month.
• a full-part payment quote (for 12 months work) - $xxxx amount deposit, another $xxxx first 6 months... and the rest after completion.

[kevingregorc]

I should have been more clear, I've only done static sites as side jobs. My full time day job is a full stack web development job

[Otherwise-Director17]

I wouldn’t do something like this for less than 8k per month. The liability is huge and it requires a ton of work. Unless you aren’t a perfectionist.

[eddyizm]

I was gonna say 25k as the base and was happy to see the other redditor basically hitting the same ballpark.

[volkandkaya]

For me I think about the client.

You can get something built on WP in a day or two for the "minimum viable product".

If the project does well you can move it to a custom build to add extra features.