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Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you clarify what you mean? I'm not sure I follow. Thanks a lot for the feedback!
I think he's suggesting that the most obvious way for potential buyers to quantify freelancers is through price, meaning that no matter what (in most cases), the job will go to the lowest bidder, leaving quality freelancers with no other way to 'prove' they are worth more. I'm not sure I agree with robryan 100%, as there are other ways for buyers to compare the freelancers (years experience, etc.). For a middle-groun…
yeah, we have plenty of places for freelancers online which are essencially a race to the bottom on rate, a lot of buyers are looking to compare on rate, most sellers that sell at a premium would at least like buyers to give them the time of day to hear what that premium will get them.
Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project
#233http://www.antiqueway.com - antique store listings with a dose of mapping.
The ultimate goal is to have pricing for improved listings (description, couple pics, link to website) and tiered pricing for the listing of antiques that the antique store has for sale. Example of a site doing the former is www.antiquesincanada.com and the latter www.sellingantiques.co.uk/
I think the main challenges here are SEO and pounding the pavement. If you have any thoughts or ideas for improvement, fire away!
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#235http://www.iwatchedit.com -- easy way to track the movies that you've seen and what you thought of them
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#236http://billable.co.za
It's getting there - Despite design I'm practically the only person working on it. Desperately trying to finish paying jobs so that I can get it done.
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#237I actually didn't use source control back when I started, so I can't show you what it looked like on launch day, but this is what BCC looked like in February 2007. Static HTML, written in notepad. The web application wouldn't exist for another year yet, and the software shipped with less than 20 bingo card activities written (it now ships with about 1,000). http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm Sales fro…
Hm - are you saying your sales haven't grown, or that they've grown 28x?
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#238http://www.openpoll.us/
openpoll is an electronic direct democracy that will allow Americans to vote on state and federal bills and elections. It is currently in development and has been for the past 2 years (I work on it in my spare time as getting funding isn't a viable option). I am in the data acquisition stage right now. That means writing parsers to pull legislation information from every state's website. As of right now, the site isn't much more than a UI slapped on top of a DB. It has registration, basic voting, and commenting. I would like to hear any potential ideas from the internet community for this site.
I plan on having beta testing in the first quarter of 2011. Some point after that, I will open source the code. Then I will add a Web API that will allow smartphone applications to be built. And if I get enough traction, eventually turn my LLC into a non-profit. My target market is every single American. My eventual goal is to turn phone booths into voting booths. Pretty lofty goals, but I believe it will make America a much better place.
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#239http://www.newsblur.com An RSS feed reader with intelligence. Got half of the intelligence part working. Still lots of bugs and not quite ready for primetime. But soon, hopefully. It's also open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/
You should consider promoting this more widely. Bloglines is closing at the end of the month and there's multiple people who aren't happy with using Google Reader for various reasons. I'd be happy with a nice online RSS reader with no intelligence. :)
I'm planning to submit it to Hacker News at the end of the week when I have premium accounts turned on and many more of the bugs worked out. Thanks for the advice!
Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project
#240I actually didn't use source control back when I started, so I can't show you what it looked like on launch day, but this is what BCC looked like in February 2007. Static HTML, written in notepad. The web application wouldn't exist for another year yet, and the software shipped with less than 20 bingo card activities written (it now ships with about 1,000). http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm Sales fro…
Hm - are you saying your sales haven't grown, or that they've grown 28x?