Our hourly rates start at $150 an hour and go down from there. We prefer projects as apposed to a few hours which usually works out better for both parties.
FaceBook has a developer environment that allows some access to a FaceBook user's profile if they subscribe to your app. Check out an example at http://customapps360.azurewebsites.net/
This site was built using the open source ecommerce shopping cart software nopCommerce. We were debating about using a Content Management Site such as WordPress but, we decided to go with nopCommerce so that we can show off some of our programming skills.
Although QuickBooks has extensive reporting capabilities, Miko Mechanical was in need of some custom work to combine estimates and actual work performed in order to get daily snap shots of how each job was doing. The result is our custom app is the daily creation of Excel Spreadsheets complete with formulas so that Miko Mechanical can easily make necessary adjustments.
Attorneys can not solicit business from a prospective client if they know that prospective client has already hired an attorney. We wrote a automatic lead generation program for a law firm that scrapes web pages from government county clerk sites that contain foreclosure information looking for prospective clients.