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Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by mattbarrie »

kawsper wrote: post #19
mattbarrie wrote: post #14

Hi there, I'm the CEO of Freelancer.com. I'd be interested to know what problem you ran into?

I recently recieved a lot of messages from you. http://i.imgur.com/6kpLIHl.png 91 emails in the course of 13 days is not acceptable, and it just suddenly started. I figured out how to disable it, but you might want to look into it.

You were subscribed to new project notifications. We did fix a bug where only a fraction of new projects were being sent out to freelancers- we had a lot of complaints that we weren't notifying freelancers of all matching opportunities. We're working on both some settings to adjust how many you receive and smarter targeting.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by mattbarrie »

kawsper wrote: post #19
mattbarrie wrote: post #14

Hi there, I'm the CEO of Freelancer.com. I'd be interested to know what problem you ran into?

I recently recieved a lot of messages from you. http://i.imgur.com/6kpLIHl.png 91 emails in the course of 13 days is not acceptable, and it just suddenly started. I figured out how to disable it, but you might want to look into it.

But thanks for the feedback!

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by moondowner »

dsirijus wrote: post #5

Well, I'd suggest looking no further than oDesk. Assemble your profile profesionally, check the new deals daily (first comers to deal have some advantage, in my experience), and be generous with tags. Helps being specific about work what you do. I did sort of a "hack" of oDesk when I was only starting - I've requested few tags to be added that were non-existant, but demanded by clients ("augmented-reality", in partic…

I have few close friends who are pretty happy with oDesk too, so I'd recommend it to people who want to freelance.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by mathiasrw »

dsirijus wrote: post #5

Well, I'd suggest looking no further than oDesk. Assemble your profile profesionally, check the new deals daily (first comers to deal have some advantage, in my experience), and be generous with tags. Helps being specific about work what you do. I did sort of a "hack" of oDesk when I was only starting - I've requested few tags to be added that were non-existant, but demanded by clients ("augmented-reality", in partic…

I agree. oDesk is smooth, slick and help you connect to people who can provide man hours.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by rebelde »

philfrasty wrote: post #16

Wrote a post on this a week ago: „The Ultimate-Guide to Hiring a Freelancer“ ( http://franzisk.us/2013/05/08/the-ultimate-guide-to-hiring-a... ). I usually go for oDesk but you better apply some filters to your search or select candidates by hand to apply to your job. I think your main problem is what Trevor McKendrick called “(you) Pay them to Code, not Think“ ( http://www.trevormckendrick.com/contracting-developers…

"Code, not think". This is my current problem with the freelancers I find. They need an awful lot of guidance, even the good ones.

Any recommendations on how to find freelancers who do much more of the thinking? (I plan on trying with some HN freelancers soon.)

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by rajjalan »

mattbarrie wrote: post #14

Hi there, I'm the CEO of Freelancer.com. I'd be interested to know what problem you ran into?

Why gamification if I am only posting jobs? It might make sense to people who are bidding for projects, but it is just too many unwanted features for posting a project.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by 23andwalnut »

mattbarrie wrote: post #21
kawsper wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently recieved a lot of messages from you. http://i.imgur.com/6kpLIHl.png 91 emails in the course of 13 days is not acceptable, and it just suddenly started. I figured out how to disable it, but you might want to look into it.

You were subscribed to new project notifications. We did fix a bug where only a fraction of new projects were being sent out to freelancers- we had a lot of complaints that we weren't notifying freelancers of all matching opportunities. We're working on both some settings to adjust how many you receive and smarter targeting.

Without having experienced the issue myself, it seems like an easy solution would be to send out a daily digest containing all new projects. Or allow users to select how often they would like to receive new project emails with options like: 1. As they are posted 2. Every x hours 3. Once per day.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by driverdan »

None of them. Their rep is that they're great for hiring low to mid level offshore devs for $10-20/h. If this describes you then great, get on all of them. But if you're charging $100+/h you do yourself a disservice by associating with them and are unlikely to find clients looking to pay that much. It may be an unfair stereotype but it's mostly true.

Network instead. Get yourself out there. Go to local events where you can meet potential clients. Get active on Twitter and interact with people in the industry. Put open source stuff up on github. Increase your exposure so when people come looking they find you.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by qarioz »

mattbarrie wrote: post #21
kawsper wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently recieved a lot of messages from you. http://i.imgur.com/6kpLIHl.png 91 emails in the course of 13 days is not acceptable, and it just suddenly started. I figured out how to disable it, but you might want to look into it.

You were subscribed to new project notifications. We did fix a bug where only a fraction of new projects were being sent out to freelancers- we had a lot of complaints that we weren't notifying freelancers of all matching opportunities. We're working on both some settings to adjust how many you receive and smarter targeting.

Actually it's very useful, it's just receiving 6 daily mail is a little bit too much.

The special notification on the other hand is very useful, it should be sent more.

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