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Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page

#1

Post by PStamatiou »

I think it would be nice to have a "gigs" section where people could post small gigs/scripts they need coded/help with and people post a price they're willing to pay.. or even transfer of karma.

Seems like a good way to help out the community and get money to the smart hackers here. I hate going down my AIM list when someone is looking for something quick done but I just don't have the time or know how.

Thoughts?

That being said I have a gig ready to post from a prominent web guy.. involving a database, opml/rss and some categorization.

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#5

Post by rms »

Oh man... I'd love to pay karma to have people do programming jobs for me. Hell, if anyone wants to do a decent size but not particularly challenging job, I'll give you my account permanently.

Also, I think you're fine to just submit a cash job as a normal story.

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#6

Post by tonyvt2005 »

PStamatiou wrote: post #4
tbx wrote: post #3

if it is about money, it can become easily into a (yet another) "rent-a-coder" startup... but the idea is good, if you can keep the hacker's quality up

in that case, if it's solely for karma, it wouldn't deteriorate the community imo.

I agree, but personally I wouldn't mind it going both ways (karma or $).

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#7

Post by dkasper »

rms wrote: post #5

Oh man... I'd love to pay karma to have people do programming jobs for me. Hell, if anyone wants to do a decent size but not particularly challenging job, I'll give you my account permanently. Also, I think you're fine to just submit a cash job as a normal story.

Next think you know we'll have a currency exchange of karma points for dollars.

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#8

Post by deltapoint »

tonyvt2005 wrote: post #6
PStamatiou wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in that case, if it's solely for karma, it wouldn't deteriorate the community imo.

I agree, but personally I wouldn't mind it going both ways (karma or $).

That brings up how much is a karma point worth in monetary terms?

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#9

Post by paulgb »

tbx wrote: post #3

if it is about money, it can become easily into a (yet another) "rent-a-coder" startup... but the idea is good, if you can keep the hacker's quality up

That's the thing - there are a tonne of rent-a-coder clones, but I have a feeling the quality of coders on YC News is much higher than that of rent-a-coder. The problem is, if you start listing jobs here, people will come for the jobs, possibly bringing the quality down.

Perhaps limiting it to LISP, Haskell and Python jobs would work. Most of these sites target Java or PHP or Rails developers, so it's hard to find work in other languages.

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#10

Post by PStamatiou »

paulgb wrote: post #9
tbx wrote: post #3

if it is about money, it can become easily into a (yet another) "rent-a-coder" startup... but the idea is good, if you can keep the hacker's quality up

That's the thing - there are a tonne of rent-a-coder clones, but I have a feeling the quality of coders on YC News is much higher than that of rent-a-coder. The problem is, if you start listing jobs here, people will come for the jobs, possibly bringing the quality down. Perhaps limiting it to LISP, Haskell and Python jobs would work. Most of these sites target Java or PHP or Rails developers, so it's hard to find wo…

Maybe if postings were limited to users with > 50 karma or something so it couldn't be gamed.
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