Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?
(about estimating - I don't tend to write proposals) You could have a look at https://www.estigator.com(NB it's a half-finished side project right now)I'm no longer a contractor, although I have been, and I'm frequently asked by my new employers to provide estimates for dev tasks.Trouble is, businesses/clients tend to see an estimate as a promise, or a target.  From the developer's point of view it is hard to do anything other than guessing (at smaller and smaller granularities).  Book recommendation: "The Clean Coder" by Robert C. Martin - esp. Chapter 10)I started building https://www.estigator.com to see if I could learn React, and come up with something to help me illustrate just exactly who's taking a risk when we say something like "it'll probably take about 3.5 days"I wasn't quite ready to "Show HN" with this one, but your question made me think of it straight away.  Would love to know what people think