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

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Post by fdorfbauer » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 10:39 AM UTC

lucahammer wrote: post #76

jaggs wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, so by mentioning 'outsourcing' we start to understand a bit more. You're focused on enterprise (or reasonable sized operations then?). Then you should say so. You have to remove all the jargon from your pages (and preferably simplify the text by removing a lot of it) and then explain your proposition like it was to a 5 year old (as someone else said here). Sorry to go on about this, but it's crucial if you're goi…

We don't use outsourcing because people assume it's for bigger companies. Also it evokes a negative feeling. Recently a developer created a task. He has a popular plugin for an open source CMS and wants to offer a paid version of it. Therefore he needs TOS. Finding a lawyer who has the right expertise in that space takes time. Instead he went to work.io, defined what he wants as a result and paid. The task is now dis…

May I suggest to put the second pitch on your frontpage? (I'd remove the b-word though)

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

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Post by nkuttler » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 10:52 AM UTC

Which browsers did you test your layout in?

There's overlapping text in the boxes on the frontpage in FF, Chrome and Opera. That's all I tried.

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

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Post by krapp » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

lucahammer wrote: post #77

krapp wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couple more things. Why is it linked to my facebook account? I don't remember ever opting in for that. How do I unlink it now because my facebook account is not a business account. For that matter, how much control do I actually have over what you pull from my accounts? - Can I delete anything you add and unlink any accounts I link? - Can I opt not to synchronize my accounts or lock my profile at a certain state? - C…

We do some auto discovery via your mail adress. Only public available data. Right now you only can decide to connect or unlink your whole account. This is done on your profile page. Let us know if there is a problem so we can look into it. You can hide topics, industries and geographies we have pulled from your accounts. If you choose to delete your account (no clickable link right now, mail us) we will remove all of…

Fair enough. I would rather the site showed me that it discovered the account/data and then gave me the option to include it or not, that would have seemed a bit less intrusive. The assumption that it's automatically stuff I want on that profile may not be true. I may not want to present that particular name or profile pic, or deal with not accepting friend requests from clients.

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

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Post by wanderful » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 9:37 PM UTC

brunooo wrote: post #42

natrius wrote: post #21

There are many grammar errors throughout the site. Pay someone to copy edit it.

Yup, embarrassing indeed in some places, wip, but not yet easy to simply extract all current data to easily hand it to someone. Thanks for pushing it up the "damn,we gotta take more care of that" list.

Take screenshots or print the pages. They don't need to look at the code to review the copy. Change the mindset to look for solutions rather than problems.

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

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Post by wanderful » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 9:37 PM UTC

lucahammer wrote: post #54

kamakazizuru wrote: post #52

so how exactly is this any different from vworker, odesk, elance etc?

We aren't in the listing business. You define the results with the editor and we make sure you get them delivered.

So you manage outsourcing? Might I recommend saying that? I've noticed throughout the comments that you tend toward drawn out explanations. Make it simple and then people will fill in the missing details. If they miss a few, no worries, because they get the gist. You don't need to give them all of the details up front, because that makes it complex, hard to understand and boring. Try and fill in as many details as you can with imagery and the structure of the site.