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I can appreciate the need to control the terms you are allowed to choose but lets say someone releases a new JS framework tomorrow and it hits major popularity in a month - your site might still not have this. Perhaps this should work as pseudo-tagging.
In any case I love the idea since I want to take on part time project gigs apart from my full time job.
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.
I see an employer has already posted a job that seems to break the $35/hour rule. In this case a 100 in 1 iPhone Game App (including artwork!) on a $1000 budget. Which, even at 1 hour per game works out to $10/hour. What checks do you have on the jobs posted by employers?
In future, such posts will be removed. The site will initially be moderated by us. Eventually, we want to bring in more user participation in this moderation.
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.
$35 * 160 hours per month = $5600 a month
Of course, there is nothing stopping consultants charging more. The idea was simply to do away with ridiculously low rates.
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Can you explain your reasoning here?
We want to give a portal where Western companies at least have a chance competing (minimum rate). Presently, they struggle on the other freelancing sites because of the rock-bottom payouts there. The result is that really good talent from the West stays away from freelancing portals, because they just get lost in the volumes out there. This is not a good situation, since there is a ton of great talent in the West (pr…
As a person who hires coders I've been looking for something like this for a while. I think another helpful service you could provide would be to (for a fee) help non technical people describe the project in the way a developer would want to see it.
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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.
Our idea was to tie the minimum rate to an acceptable monthly income in the US/West for decent living standards. $35 * 160 hours per month = $5600 a month Of course, there is nothing stopping consultants charging more. The idea was simply to do away with ridiculously low rates.
As a person who hires coders I've been looking for something like this for a while. I think another helpful service you could provide would be to (for a fee) help non technical people describe the project in the way a developer would want to see it.
Can you put your email in your about so it's visible in your profile?
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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.
Our idea was to tie the minimum rate to an acceptable monthly income in the US/West for decent living standards. $35 * 160 hours per month = $5600 a month Of course, there is nothing stopping consultants charging more. The idea was simply to do away with ridiculously low rates.
Wold class talent should not settle down for "acceptable monthly income" and "decent living standards", that's what we reasonably competent talent do. And even the reasonably competent freelancers should be charging twice as much, just to compensate for the lack of benefits, the depreciation of their infrastructure, and the fact that they will not likely be able to book 4 x 40hr-solid weeks month after month.
The whole point of your little startup is to cut off the people who leaves in countries with lower cost of living. You should rename it as WeCantCompete.us