Personal Project Ballpark It

Creating a New Estimate

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This is what the form looks like for creating a new estimate. It’s pretty straight forward, as you can see.

If you notice in the top right, I’ve filled in my default rate to be $80.00 (this can be done in the settings). Clicking that price will automatically fill in the “rate” field for all tasks, and then recalculate the estimate based on the change. You can also set this to be the default for new estimates, in which case you do nothing. It’s all about convenience.

Also, I have not specified any default tasks, so you get one to start with. You can add/remove tasks inline, by clicking the appropriate icons.

by Ryan Heath Last updated 2 months ago

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Details About This Project

Start Date 05 Jan 2009 (9 months ago)
Timeline 3-4 weeks
URL http://github.com/rpheath/ballparkit
Responsibilities CSS, XHTML, jQuery, Ruby, Rails, Database

Ballpark It is an application that solves a single problem: creating project estimates for potential clients.

It’s essentially a tool that allows you to organize a group of project tasks, where each task has “hours” and “rate” associated with it. The tasks are tallied up as you type, so you can get a feel for how your estimate is coming.

There are several convenient things that make creating estimates a breeze. For instance, you can specify a default rate in your settings to be used for all new estimates. In addition to that, you can specify default tasks, either on the fly or in the settings.

Probably the most beneficial part of this tiny application is the ability to show an estimate to anyone, regardless of whether or not they have an account. Just send them the public URL to your estimate!

Personal Project Ballpark It

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