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Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#41

Post by jim_dot »

jacquesm wrote: post #25

I don't think it is fair to discriminate by country, it would be much better to only discriminate by capabilities. What the price is should not matter either, unless you are looking to set up a shop that people will know will overcharge or where the people from the 'west' can set up shop without competition.

What's wrong with making the site region-based? Maybe don't discriminate by country, but certainly limit people to their own region/country. If people are looking for slave labour from India there's always Elance.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#42

Post by jeswin »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #40
jeswin wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We probably need to do a better job of communicating this. 1. The username is assigned to the company; users cannot login individually. 2. But once you login, you can add various user profiles and credentials to the company profile.

It's definitely not clear. I still don't get it... In the "Email Address" field do I put my companies shared email address, or my own personal email address? Same for the Linked In profile. Both of us have individual Linked In profiles...

The first user becomes the "Admin". We will indicate this.

Once you log in, you can add as many "employees" as you want to the company profile. (Note that one employee (admin) was already added during Signup).

This is sort of similar to basecamp. But we haven't done a good job explaining it on the site.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#43

Post by mike-cardwell »

jeswin wrote: post #42
mike-cardwell wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely not clear. I still don't get it... In the "Email Address" field do I put my companies shared email address, or my own personal email address? Same for the Linked In profile. Both of us have individual Linked In profiles...

The first user becomes the "Admin". We will indicate this. Once you log in, you can add as many "employees" as you want to the company profile. (Note that one employee (admin) was already added during Signup). This is sort of similar to basecamp. But we haven't done a good job explaining it on the site.

It all made sense when I was finally in. I don't usually have this much trouble figuring out sign-up forms, honest ;)

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#44

Post by alinajaf »

I think this is a great idea, but am I the only one who thinks the minimum rate should be more like $70? This would widen the perceived quality gap between this and Elance IMO, but I'm guessing you've probably done a lot of research before settling on $35.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#45

Post by aplusbi »

jacquesm wrote: post #25

I don't think it is fair to discriminate by country, it would be much better to only discriminate by capabilities. What the price is should not matter either, unless you are looking to set up a shop that people will know will overcharge or where the people from the 'west' can set up shop without competition.

IANAL but I imagine having the site open to all countries is a legal nightmare.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#48

Post by notahacker »

jim_dot wrote: post #41
jacquesm wrote: post #25

I don't think it is fair to discriminate by country, it would be much better to only discriminate by capabilities. What the price is should not matter either, unless you are looking to set up a shop that people will know will overcharge or where the people from the 'west' can set up shop without competition.

What's wrong with making the site region-based? Maybe don't discriminate by country, but certainly limit people to their own region/country. If people are looking for slave labour from India there's always Elance.

If there are Indian freelancers with verifiable high quality work, OSS contributions etc. they deserve to be able to compete on a level playing field with similarly qualified Americans. You could always design a filter for those people who for whatever reason were only looking for developers in their timezone/country/city

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#49

Post by jamesbritt »

alinajaf wrote: post #44

I think this is a great idea, but am I the only one who thinks the minimum rate should be more like $70? This would widen the perceived quality gap between this and Elance IMO, but I'm guessing you've probably done a lot of research before settling on $35.

I do not expect to get anyone skilled for $35.00.

Perhaps that's an ignorant assumption, but I don't think I'm alone in this.

Charge more.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup CanYouCode.com

#50

Post by CWIZO »

ergo14 wrote: post #30

Tried to sign up, unfortunately my country which is a part of EU is not there (Poland), but so are others missing. You should at least allow for every EU member to participate when it comes to "europe"

+1

There's not much logic in that country list. I kinda understand (but not really) that Slovenia (my country, part of EU) is not listed there, but Austria, Switzerland, etc are also missing. That means I can't register and give you more feedback.

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