I asked in a networking channel once if there was a web interface for configuring cricket. I got preached at that it was easy and I should just write it myself. So I offered $3000 for anyone in the room to write it for me. Then I got crap for being “cheap”.
If its easy, how is that cheap?
There’s no end to the supply of people telling you how easy things are on the internet. They’ll usually even package it in the form of helpful advice like name-dropping a lot of related components. They’ll even derail into arguments about the pros and cons of other components. Yet nobody ever ponies up and names their price. Geeks have this fundamental disconnect in their brain that says “if I can concieve of how it could be done, everything after that is easy.” No, everything after that is work, and if our work was easy we wouldn’t be payed much more than a McJob would we?