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Re: Show HN: Hire.Bid – marketplace for on-demand work

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Post by icebraining »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #10

"Patent pending" isn't something that should be on a freelancer job board. The idea of patenting anything about this is approximately as rediculous as Amazon patenting one click checkout. Cool otherwise.

Just for curiosity's sake, here's the patent application: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...

Here's also the founder's Medium post about the creation of this service: https://medium.com/startup-foundation-stories/about-my-11-ye...

Re: Show HN: Hire.Bid – marketplace for on-demand work

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Post by zerr »

brockwhittaker wrote: post #8
Jaruzel wrote: post #4

If it's also aimed at 'remote work' as it says on the main page - why is it restricted to US only, and why does it need a ZIP code?

Because handling payments for outside of the US has all sorts of legal and logistical obstacles.

As with handling payments inside the US... Let the client decide.

Re: Show HN: Hire.Bid – marketplace for on-demand work

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Post by orthoganol »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #10

"Patent pending" isn't something that should be on a freelancer job board. The idea of patenting anything about this is approximately as rediculous as Amazon patenting one click checkout. Cool otherwise.

I can understand why a profit seeking venture wants to get a patent if they can (even though I viscerally disagree with high level, low-effort software patents), but to advertise it on the footer, while sharing to the tech community that cares about these issues, is just plain bad judgment.

I mean also, given it's the glorious chicken-egg problem, with only 1 developer within 50 miles of my SF zipcode for the major web categories I searched, idk if they think an investor will hook at "They have a patent!" while ignoring this lack of engagement?

Re: Show HN: Hire.Bid – marketplace for on-demand work

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Post by avip »

Ok here's some constructive feedback:

1. Open dev console. You're trying to load non-existing fonts. You are trying to serve stripe js from your own server instead of their cdn.

2. Drop the buggy reg process and go with "standard" auth providers - google/github.

3. Take a note from upwork - let me hire and be hired with same login.

4. Once registered as "want to hire" I got 404.

EDIT: 5. Get a designer to give you professional feedback on the look and feel.

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