Hey bud,
I don’t see why the cost of something like a theme, that is not incredibly taxing for someone rehearsed in Ruby to make with Discourse, especially when I’m requesting a carbon copy, any style/colours etc would be just copied from wemod and I can always customise/change it at a later date, what I’m majorly interested in is the layout of that forum, how the categories are like boxes, etc, would cost anymore than my budgeted price, I’m not asking for a re-design/brand new concept, I’m literally asking for a copy and paste.
I have development experience, I’ll be it with PHP, I’m moving from years of using Xenforo and top level developers in that community don’t charge $150 per hour for their design work…
A competent developer would be able to complete my request within 5-8 hours, $150-200 for a days work is a fantastic rate.