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I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by kami8845 »

james-fend wrote: post #6
rplnt wrote: post #5

Please, lose the page-blocking pop-up. It's one of the worst web practices and I wouldn't even bothered reading the article if it weren't so praised in the comments. It's always easier to close a page than close the pop-up.

Turned off. You're the 2nd person to suggest that. Thanks.

You may not want to turn it off. From an advertising perspective I would suggest you split-test it. Yeah it will annoy some people, but entry-pops have great effect and are used by most performance marketers whenever possible.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by dools »

Can you please put a note in your calendar to do a new post on January 25, 2013 "I Launched my Startup one year ago, this is how the hectic year went" :)

Great job on the launch, sounds like you got some good numbers coming into the site and it was good to get an inside look into response rates/conversion based on a moderate initial launch email list.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by scoot »

james-fend wrote: post #61
sequoia wrote: post #48

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…

Hey sequoia, Yes, that does need to come down. That image was actually a leftover from the original 1-page splash landing site that runs running since June until yesterday. Never thought twice to take it out as my eyes literally skip over it when scanning that page.

And yet here we are 5 hours later, and there it still is. It was a lie last June, and it's still a lie now.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by plasma »

I've looked at a few freelance sites before, but turned away because all the "Requests for help" want an e-bay clone for $200.

It's at that point I think the entire site is rubbish (low quality offers for work etc), so I think you may want to ensure work offers are reasonable to set a standard.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by StavrosK »

sequoia wrote: post #53
bdg wrote: post #24

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…

http://www.freelancify.com/projects/1-craigslist-search-scra... "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.

This is roughly what our startup (not launched yet) is trying to do:

http://www.instahero.com/

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by james-fend »

driverdan wrote: post #46

Congrats on the launch but to me it appears to be just another elance. What makes you different? As a freelancer who charges a lot more than $10/h and isn't interested in $200 projects why should I join?

The ability to tell the person who posted the project that their project will be a piece of crap if they try to get something done for that much and why.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by james-fend »

james-fend wrote: post #77
driverdan wrote: post #46

Congrats on the launch but to me it appears to be just another elance. What makes you different? As a freelancer who charges a lot more than $10/h and isn't interested in $200 projects why should I join?

The ability to tell the person who posted the project that their project will be a piece of crap if they try to get something done for that much and why.

Also, those spray and pray 'generic' bids that many companies on Elance and oDesk can't get away with that. So they actually have to display some sort brain power and ability to the project poster.

The ability for the project poster not be embarded by 40-50 bids all at the same time and not having a clue about their work ethic/communication/etc. and going purely off of reviews and botched portfolios.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Post by james-fend »

grocerocity wrote: post #69

As someone looking to learn to code from scratch and build a Web/smartphone app, I'm curious what your coding background was before your 8 week ruby cram session began?

great question. I was a web designer working with only html/css. I had no clue what an MVC was before I got told the best route is to learn Rails by Josh.

I'll definitely be making a blog post about the learning Rails aspect as it was requested alot today. If you want, I'd suggest to subscribe that way it'll email you when that post is created.

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