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At $500 I normally have a couple days invested in a project. As the development time increases so does the price of the product and if you have somethign requiring a solid man month, my pricing has to include the oportunity costs required in such an endevour. The flip side is that I produce something extensable, maintainable, reliable, and without royalty to the customer.

Many developers will change if the product they are creating might have a resale value, but for most custom poker apps the market is very very small. Case in point, the party mine application was offered for sale a while back. I tried to do a fair estimant of what that product might be worth on a clean buy out, and frankly I came up with a figure of a couple grand. The developer put way more time into the app than the money would indicate however he provided the sweat equity at a discount to himself, a good outside developer can't normally do such things.

I'm not trying to discourage the OP, but it's something to think about.