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There's got to be a market for people who are willing to pay more simply to not have to deal with overseas developers.
Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…
The budget is given at $300-$500. Is this even close to realistic? We pay offshore developers $30/hr. I know their agency takes a chunk of that, but a credibly completed e-commerce site for a few hundred bucks?
Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…
"Come Join the Exciting World of SPAMMING!" Not the founder's fault by any means, but it looks like this new site is not immune. That'd be a selling point: "invite to list"/vet the listings.
I'm Xposting this from his blog... don't think it will make it past moderation: Looks intriguing but be very careful with your credibility; a freelancing site that’s considered untrustworthy is a failed freelancing site. I say this because I saw your post about “Launched yesterday” then on your site I see the testimonial “Freelancify helped us find a great designer to get our blog launched. -GrowNasheville” Wait- the…
Also, I dunno if it helps to say you've just launched yesterday. I rather try to pretend that I'm old and established by putting (C) 2008-2012 or something in the footer.
Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…
Looking on the site I see: "Build an E commerce website for multifunctional women\’s clothing line..." The budget is given at $300-$500. Is this even close to realistic? We pay offshore developers $30/hr. I know their agency takes a chunk of that, but a credibly completed e-commerce site for a few hundred bucks?
You'll get a slightly customized OSS e-commerce system.
Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…
Looking on the site I see: "Build an E commerce website for multifunctional women\’s clothing line..." The budget is given at $300-$500. Is this even close to realistic? We pay offshore developers $30/hr. I know their agency takes a chunk of that, but a credibly completed e-commerce site for a few hundred bucks?
- Take open source CMS (wordpress/drupal/something else you know)
- Buy basic ecommerce theme
- Buy/add ecommerce plugin
- Add logo (if not available outsource to cheap logo site)
Then that is basically your final product. The freelancer has spent probably 100-200 dollars on theme and plugins and logo. The new website is at least functional and looks nice because everything has already been created.
People expecting more for that price range probably aren't going to get anything better than what you see at your typical local business websites (something that looks like crap).
Why would James launch at 5:30 AM after getting no sleep? This sounds like a good way to make mistakes, make it hard to keep up with issues that come up, and generally make the day seem hectic when it maybe didn't need to be (and in fact wasn't). Was there a mission critical launch deadline? Were there key users to be gained at 5:30 AM? Instead, he took a three hour nap during business hours, with emails and bugs accruing that needed "immediate attention".
In fact, it doesn't sound like a very hectic day to me at all. A three hour nap in the middle of the day? An hour long victory lunch? Those sounds like the wonderful rewards of having a flexible (read: no) schedule. James worked hard leading up to the launch day, for sure. But on launch day, he spent one to two hours writing two emails, and one hour fixing a certificate bug. 3 hours. The rest was spent refreshing logs and being excited. Fun! Not hectic.
Aptly, "THE DAY'S RESULTS" is a large, prominent chart with... one data point.
What am I supposed to be interested in here?
I'm Xposting this from his blog... don't think it will make it past moderation: Looks intriguing but be very careful with your credibility; a freelancing site that’s considered untrustworthy is a failed freelancing site. I say this because I saw your post about “Launched yesterday” then on your site I see the testimonial “Freelancify helped us find a great designer to get our blog launched. -GrowNasheville” Wait- the…
Also, I dunno if it helps to say you've just launched yesterday. I rather try to pretend that I'm old and established by putting (C) 2008-2012 or something in the footer.
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I don't think I get it; I've never launched a site, so maybe that's why. I'm going to be critical and skeptical about this particular post , but that doesn't mean that I don't think it's laudable, stressful, and exciting to launch a product by yourself (and I'm glad you are getting front page press here) Why would James launch at 5:30 AM after getting no sleep? This sounds like a good way to make mistakes, make it ha…
It's very important to be alert and able to react in case something goes very wrong. Launching after being up 20 hours is taking risks for no reason.