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p/how-much-to-make-a-videoEstimate your video cost in less than a minute
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Ben Lang

How Much To Make A Video - Estimate your video cost in less than a minute

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How Much To Make A Video is a simple tool, built to help companies in a need of a product video, to understand how much their video should cost.

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Yoav Hornung
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Hi Everyone and thanks @benln for the hunt. I’m Yoav, Co-founder & CEO at @VeedMe and one of the creators of this tool. At Veed.me, a video production marketplace, we get asked multiple times a day by clients “How much will it cost to make my video?" I actually get phone calls from friends few times a week, asking me for help in estimating their video costs before making it. How Much To Make a Video is a side project/tool we built in order to help people estimate the cost of their video. Based on videos that were produced through our system, we built a gamified experience that should help in not only estimating the cost of a video, but also with understanding all the varied elements that go into producing a video for those who are unfamiliar with the process. How Much To Make a Video was inspired by How Much To Make An App, built by Crew. This is our second side project at Veed.me, following the success of @coverrco, our joint initiative with @CodersClan which was also launched here on awesome PH. I’ll be happy to hear your comments and answer any questions, except for how much a video costs ;)
Ben Lang
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Hunter
Pretty cool, asides from how much to make an app , wonder if there are other similar style projects. Ie for a website, book, anything else... A PH collection of How much to make X would be pretty cool at some point.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@benln Thanks! I agree, it could make the world much better lol. Actually, @pickcrew replicated the How Much To Make An App to a Making a website one here: http://howmuchdoesawebsiteco.st/ These can be done for so many verticals. So it's definitely screaming "collection" ;)
Michael Sacca
@yoavush Awesome idea - these tools are incredibly handy. Great work and thanks for the shoutout :)
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@michaelsacca Our pleasure, and yep - definitely handy! :)
Uri Ezra
@yoavush It was a pleasure working with you guys on @coverrco. As always every product @VeedMe creates it beautiful and well thought of. Keep on the good job :)
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@uriezra Thanks! outsourcing the code to @codersclan was one of the best things we did since @coverrco ;)
Yoav Vilner
Very nice hunt @benln . @yoavush big fan of Veedme's side projects!
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@yoavvilner Thanks Yoav, appreciate the love :) I hope you kind find our tool useful for your great clients!
Yonathan Gur-Zeev
Hey Yoav, congrats on the hunt! Just went through the wizard, nicely done. Very focused and intuitive. As for the concept, that's an great idea that should've been thought of a long time ago :) I think that understanding the budget ballpark for video production is a major advantage for both client and creators. Matching expectations is very important for a healthy production process. I wish I had such wizards for everything that I buy! Good luck!
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@ygurzeev Hey! thanks for the nice words! As you just said, and probably know from your own business - Setting expectations is one of the biggest challenges in making a video and I'm glad you found the experience we created here, intuitive and focused for that matter. I wish we'd thought of it long time ago as well, would've saved me and my team SO much time :)
Yoav Hornung
Maker
Hunters Exclusive Hey fellow hunters! Got a budget estimation and now you want a video? We're cutting 50% off Veed.me fees to any hunter who asks for a video.
Eddie DaRoza
As I video producer I am super thankful you created this. Will also help for those that go "I have a $100 bucks and I'd like to make a commercial like that new apple one..."
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@eddiedaroza Dude, this is the comment we were waiting for. Just showed it to my team, I hope you'll find it useful and we'll be more than happy to get some feedback as we know there must be a few things we should improve.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@eddiedaroza We'd love that :)
Or Ron
Wow this is awsome! Good job.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@or_ron Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it and hopefully you'll get a chance to use it ;)
Yair Kivaiko
Another great product from the @Veedme team! Way to go @yoavush, amazing stuff!
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@kobaiko Thanks dude! I'm glad you like it and I hope you'll get the chance to use it for your clients, we'd love some feedback!
Jared Fleitman
@yoavush this is going to be so helpful for me to gut-check when videographers are trying to screw me :P would love it if this tool existed for website quotes as well...
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@jfleits Thanks for that! As for the gut check part, I'm not sure this will be the ideal use of out tool since we acknowledge that some creators might charge differently based on their own rates, experience, location etc.. but it will definitely help you with understanding ballparks. As for websites calculators - here's one by @pickcrew who inspired us to build our own tool with their app building estimator which is quite similar to the website one - http://howmuchdoesawebsiteco.st/
Omri Shabi
Cool. Love it!
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@omrishabi Thanks Omri :) I hope you'll get the chance to use it
Omri Shabi
@yoavush Already managed one demo and cost estimating. Considering 50% discount for PHers - man, this is 10% of the common price in market. I will absolutely use it when it will be relevant. Well done!
Dror Cohen
These kinds of tools can be tremendously useful for both the customer and the business. On one hand, it gives an idea of how the process works to the customer and on the other hand, the business generates valuable customers who are now familiar with the process and are also willing to pay the needed budget. Pricing is always a complex issue, this is a great way to mitigate it and make it fun.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@drorco Thanks Dror, Pricing is indeed a tricky issue to say the least and I guess there will never be an accurate way of calculating it as it depends not only on technical elements but also on experience, execution level, social economic base etc.. As you said - it's not only the price but also the process understanding.
Sean Lewin
I love the new cost widget! Since I'm one of the ppl who calls @yoavush for video estimates for Kickstaters this will be super useful. Maybe you can add more depth making it easier to get a crowdfunding video cost estimate or more directed towards what I need the video for website, promo etc.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@seanlewin Interesting. at the moment we're more about estimating the general costs of video productions, no matter if it goes to your social/website/etc.. Having said that, it's something to think about, especially since we deal with different kind of videos at Veed.me Thanks for the kind words and I hope you make a good use of it ;)
Amanda Nagy (Ingle)
This is AWESOME - I was just asking around the other day about how much it will cost to make a promo video!
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@amandacnagy Thank you for this comment! I'm glad you find it useful and I hope you'll manage to use it and maybe @Veedme for your next promo video! :)
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@readytoshine Thank you!
Dave Park
Interesting tool and also a great way to get leads for your business. It also makes you focus on how much different aspects of creating a video will cost. I like how the price changes in the top right corner versus showing the implications of certain features front and center.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@daveparkhere Thanks Dave, you nailed exactly all the reasons that led us to build it. We were debating whether to show the price changed or not, as you see - we decided to put it and I'm glad you like it. Cheers
Mikee Shattuck
I've made over 200 videos in the last year for all types of businesses and these rates are pretty accurate.
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@mikeeshattuck Thank you so much for this comment, I hope you'll use this tool for your future productions, 200 is a really nice number and it means a lot to us that we got it right! That said, we're still happy for feedback in case you believe there are tweaks needed..
Yuval Kaminka
I love it when a project comes to life and then it's not clear why no one did it before. Good job! (I just found out I was over paying...). Can you share insights into the cost estimation? Is it based on your platform?
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@yuvalkaminka Thanks Yuval! and I really wish we would've done it earlier, could save so much time and so many misunderstandings. The cost estimation is based on the videos that were produced on Veed.me, these are not the "low cost" videos that are being offered in different places but also not the high-end broadcast TV kind of commercials. These are prices of smaller production companies and individuals who are very often just as talented as the big ones.. so with our estimator you'll get anywhere between $1500 - $14000 for a super video. I'm sure we have a lot to improve even though so far we're positively surprised by the good responses for its accuracy :)
Fernando Ballester
Awesome idea! At @Yeeply_EN we launched www.howmuchcostanapp.com and it became our first source of customer acquisition! Wish you same luck!
Yoav Hornung
Maker
@fer_bru Thanks a bunch! (old comment I know but just saw it ;) ) good job guys!
Jim Knutt
Great resource tool!