I made a tool to create software project estimates
Estimake is how fixed-bid software agencies quote projects: the whole team builds one estimate together in real time, hours are suggested from past projects, and the client gets a branded quote as a link, PDF or spreadsheet.
I made a tool to create software project estimates launched on November 24, 2020 with 11 votes, #992 of 3,461 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Estimake is a tool for creating software project estimates. It helps teams and project managers quantify the scope and timeline of development work. The tool launched in November 2020 and is designed for anyone involved in planning or bidding on software projects.
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Estimake lets your team collaborate on estimates together, suggests hours from your past projects, and turns it into a branded quote your client opens as a link, PDF, or spreadsheet. Estimake is a collaborative project estimation tool for software teams and agencies. It lets several people build the same estimate at once in a real-time editor, autocompletes tasks and hours from your previous projects, and turns the result into a branded quote you can share with a client as a link, a PDF, or a spreadsheet. Estimate in ranges. Every task takes a from–to in hours or days, and the totals follow. Add a description to any task explaining the complexity involved. Respond to any objections in…from estimake.it
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Hey folks, want to share the project I've been working on for past few years. It's a project estimation tool which can be applied to pretty much any project, not only software development, but any where you'd want to know cost or time it takes. Core features: * Project resources such as engineer, or anybody/anything that you need to include into project * PDF Export * Easy features management including drag & drop * Sorting/filtering/search * Projects sharing(share with your client via link)
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