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Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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Post by dalehurley1 »

I am sorry but I am confused to what your site does. It looks good, but what is it that it does as I am confused. This is not to slam you. I hope to help you. "Global Expertise, On Demand & Delivered Online" is just buzzwords and does not concisely tell me what you do or what benefit you provide.

For instance I go to planscop.io and I am told "Project Management for Contractors - Planscope is a simple tool that helps you build better client projects and close more deals.". I know it is for contractors for managing projects.

NewRelic.com - "A DEVELOPER’S BEST FRIEND - See how we help 25,000+ customers monitor their apps." I know it is for Developers and it monitors my apps.

Risks.io - "Track Your Project's Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies Online"

Basically I think work.io does is "Work.io connects employers and knowledge-workers together for highly-skilled one of projects."

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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Post by dalehurley1 »

dalehurley1 wrote: post #61

I am sorry but I am confused to what your site does. It looks good, but what is it that it does as I am confused. This is not to slam you. I hope to help you. "Global Expertise, On Demand & Delivered Online" is just buzzwords and does not concisely tell me what you do or what benefit you provide. For instance I go to planscop.io and I am told "Project Management for Contractors - Planscope is a simple tool that helps…

"Work.io connects employers and knowledge-workers together for highly-skilled one off* projects."

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

#63

Post by brunooo »

dalehurley1 wrote: post #62
dalehurley1 wrote: post #61

I am sorry but I am confused to what your site does. It looks good, but what is it that it does as I am confused. This is not to slam you. I hope to help you. "Global Expertise, On Demand & Delivered Online" is just buzzwords and does not concisely tell me what you do or what benefit you provide. For instance I go to planscop.io and I am told "Project Management for Contractors - Planscope is a simple tool that helps…

"Work.io connects employers and knowledge-workers together for highly-skilled one off* projects."

Dale, Thanks! Work in progress, skipped the tagline & extra text on the frontpage as long as we didn't see a clear winner yet...

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

#64

Post by orangethirty »

lucahammer wrote: post #29
mengine wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. What problem are you trying to solve and what are the benefits to me? This is a much better splash page but the copy is still pretty bad - https://www.workio.com/about/

We want to streamline work processes. If you need something done you have to find someone who is able to do it and has time. work.io takes care of this. You define what you need, say how much you want to pay and get the results. You don't need to interact with the providers. Less overhead and better results are your benefits.

Ok, so you are providing a service like Odesk and those types of sites. Cool, nothing wrong with that. There certainly is a huge need for this right now. Just come out and say it. Let me help you with that (using your own words).

Work.io allows you to hire skilled workers without the need to interview them one by one. Just join, define a task, price it, and get the results. Work.io works with a pool of talented people to deliver what you need. No resources wasted. Better results. Our focus is to streamline your work process by taking care of finding the people you need to get things done, at your price.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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Post by krisj »

I think the problem here is that you're doing EVERYTHING. If you tested out a single vertical (e.g. legal work for startups), and connected it with a market of, say, well credentialed lawyers who're interested in working for themselves, then I would know exactly what your site is for, and how/when I might use it.

If you tell me that I should use you for everything, I'm probably going to use you for nothing. Give the verticals their own websites.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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Post by geuis »

All of your fonts are too small. All of your text colors are too gray. I'm in my early 30's with fairly good eyesight, and its just way too hard to read anything on your site. I tried signing up and going through the Sell services bit, but just gave up because the whole thing gives me a physical headache trying to read anything.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

#67

Post by bdunbar »

gojomo wrote: post #19
bdunbar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using 'pls' in formal communication indicates sloppiness and imprecision of thought. It indicates that one is not serious. A mental flyweight. Shorter: spelling counts.

Generally in my life I've shared the same opinion... but are you sure that if A/B-tested, 'please' would outperform 'pls' in the context of Work.IO's goals? For example: when soliciting user participation, it often helps to lower user anxiety that what is written needs to be perfectly crafted/grammatical. 'Txtspeek' can send a signal: it's OK whatever 'u' want to type here.

a) A/B testing grammar is a lame idea.

b) Please isn't perfectly crafted, it's just the right way to spell that word.

c) Text speak is a signal, but only a positive one for functionally illiterate Eloi.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

#68

Post by jaggederest »

brunooo wrote: post #38
cinbun8 wrote: post #30

This is what I understand 1 minute after perusing your website. 1 - This is some sort of a marketplace where you can buy and sell expertise. Kinda like a Air bnb for odd jobs. Reminds me of a similar startup that tried that, but I cannot remember their name. 2 - The landing page's layout is a little confusing. I clicked on a couple of links and landed on your about page[1]. When you have a 90 second video explaining…

Hey, thanks a ton for the detailed feedback! 1) Solvate and many others. 2) Went with the current one to see what appeals to people, but like mentioned the industry specific landing pages will be a lot like you suggest. 3) Sign-In is both Signup & Login, the redundant one is just as backup (just to explain the thoughts behind it). 4) Still fiddling with this, most sites like oDeks et al do it, but nt yet sure if it's…

While you're taking suggestions, let me enter my information instead of parsing my social network connections:

a) I don't have some of those social networks at all and

b) I'm not going to let you have access to the other ones.

I'm probably the ideal target for you, in terms of offering services, but I'm simply not going to bother if you require, even politely, intrusion into my life.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

#70

Post by opminion »

lucahammer wrote: post #45
jaggs wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You see that there is a bit of your problem. No-one really understands what 'streamline work processes' actually means. Does that mean you can help me serve my Big Macs better in my day job? Jargon kills (and I mean KILLS) marketing effectiveness.

I wrote an article about this a month ago http://lucahammer.com/post/31269937454/startup-wording I know that we have that problem and we try to solve it. I believe that discussions like this one help with it. We try to describe what we offer and others tell us what they don't understand. We remove overhead from outsourcing. You define what results you need and the people on the platform deliver. No management needed.…

We remove overhead from outsourcing

I thought that outsourcing's main problem was lack of common incentives for both parties. Management overhead is a consequence of that. How's that related to what you do?

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