An app like Reddit? Are you sure yours is that simple? Probably $2.5-$10k for someone really good.
We expect to spend about $15-$20k, to start, and I'll be doing all of the heavy lifting of hooking things up--we just want to get HTML/CSS mockups done, with no actual work on integrating the style into our application or website. But we have a lot of stuff in our app. Heavy use of forms, vast swaths of information spread across hundreds of pages, etc. But then again, the pool of talent that we're wanting to work with is pretty much limited "famously good". If we're going to pay for it, we figure it might as well be as good as we can get. I've gotten much better over the past two years, as I've focused more on design and less on software development...so if we're going to pay rather than just let me tinker with it more, it's gotta be great.
seems finland is #1 with 75% of the population classified as internet users. that means everyone for me btw (because babies can't possibly be internet users do they?)
i think the answer lies on how you design the charging system. if users have to through a cart/transaction system, micropayments would never work. it should be simpler (say, with one click) with as less friction as possible.
micropayments are good for microservices. say you want to use basecamp for 1 week but dont want to pay the monthly service. itunes music store is another "microstore".
