My boyfriends boss learned that I have experience running discord servers and said he would pay me to set one up for them. With a ticketing service and all that customers can use, announcements, private staff channels, onboarding, chat moderation etc. I set it up in a couple hours. My boyfriend said I need to know how much to charge when I show them, but I honestly have no idea. I’m thinking $50-100?
200$-800$.
It will probably be a lot of work so that it won’t be a very profitable project unless you make it a full time business. But that’s ok.
This is understandeable for first-times, you shouldn’t be looking to hit good hourly rates, you should either be looking to get experience so that you can deliver a better product faster next time, or treating it as a one off project while you network and experiment.
Discord-making is unlikely to command enough respect to get into the three-zeroes club anyways, additionally anyone interested in discord is probably very young, has a low budget, and not very interested on actual business. This specific boss is probably looking at you as some cheap form of labour who would be content with a couple of extra bucks for buying videogames. Discord is after all a hobby platform associated with unproductivity.
Maximize your chances of closing the deal, and use it as an escape of the unlucrative world of running discords, network with actual companies and keep an eye out for adjacent industries. Hopefully you will be able to pivot your skills onto more profitable ventures like running communities of communities with higher revenue like Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, etc…
Source: I manage the IT aspects of some companies’ social media media campaigns, there’s no money on discord.