72€/h (+20% VAT on the invoice). 7+ years of Magento development experience for the local SMB market, Estonia.
Just for reference, Magento is a huge monolithic e-commerce platform (PHP + jQuery + knockoutjs + xml - hello 2012!) that doesn't seem to be very popular amongst the HN crowd. I do it all from the frontend to integrations with ERPs, client tutorials/ handholding, hosting/devops etc etc.
0 marketing, all clients through word of mouth basically. Most follow a similar pattern: larger agency develops some almost working solution over a few years, developers leave and take in-house project specific knowledge with them, client left hanging and agency bills huge amounts for no progress and the relationship sours.
Most end up being long-term clients since the market for Magento devs is horrific, e-commerce never sleeps and the tech keeps on churning. Who wants to do primarily legacy maintenance work, right? To my surprise, it's actually very rewarding because of the close contact with the primary stakeholders.
I manage around 20 billable hours a week, all remote since the beginning. I say manage because having a 2year old run around takes the other 20 to 80. I have way too much work piled up already and yet here I am writing this comment for some reason...
Just for reference, Magento is a huge monolithic e-commerce platform (PHP + jQuery + knockoutjs + xml - hello 2012!) that doesn't seem to be very popular amongst the HN crowd. I do it all from the frontend to integrations with ERPs, client tutorials/ handholding, hosting/devops etc etc.
0 marketing, all clients through word of mouth basically. Most follow a similar pattern: larger agency develops some almost working solution over a few years, developers leave and take in-house project specific knowledge with them, client left hanging and agency bills huge amounts for no progress and the relationship sours.
Most end up being long-term clients since the market for Magento devs is horrific, e-commerce never sleeps and the tech keeps on churning. Who wants to do primarily legacy maintenance work, right? To my surprise, it's actually very rewarding because of the close contact with the primary stakeholders.
I manage around 20 billable hours a week, all remote since the beginning. I say manage because having a 2year old run around takes the other 20 to 80. I have way too much work piled up already and yet here I am writing this comment for some reason...