Most customers don't look just for available candidates but for ones that also match the required skill set. Just looking for some available "backend developer" wont work.
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#22Any good freelancer/contractor knows your availability is largely unimportant to the success of your own business. In other words, you don't normally lose money because you're unavailable, you lose it because you don't have work lined up.
It's up to the freelancer to develop a solid pipeline for work.
Downtime isn't uncommon either, it happens, but it's also one of the reasons your rate should be high enough to support your downtime.
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#23Most customers don't look just for available candidates but for ones that also match the required skill set. Just looking for some available "backend developer" wont work.
My experience as a freelancer tells me this is not always the case.
Besides, even if it is, knowing when a particular freelancer is available still is useful - isn't it?
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#24Backend / Frontend developer is kinda vague. Would be more useful if you could explain your specialty in more detail
Yup, sure thing - I'd like to add tagging for descriptions of skills.
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#25Brilliantly simple. I'd love to see some permanent/freelance and location filters for employers though.
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#26Brilliantly simple. I'd love to see some permanent/freelance and location filters for employers though.
Yup - I want to do this too..but I need a certain number of people in the same location to make it worthwhile. You can hack the urls to include the "location" parameter in the meantime though.
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#27QA: - The settings link is a 404 if you haven't completed your profile yet. - There isn't a link to complete the registration flow from the rest of the app. If you click Settings prematurely and get that 404, your profile is hosed unless you know to find http://availability.is/users/calendars in your history. - There's no obvious way to choose a profile photo. - The calendar listing doesn't auto-update. I just went a…
Also, some twitter links are broken e.g. http://availability.is/for/sebinsua links to http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/sebinsua
Not broken, you just don't need to include the full link to your twitter profile - just your handle.
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#28Neat idea. I would expect there to be a link to each freelancer's portfolio/personal website before ever considering clicking on "Hire Me".
There is. Immediately under the freelancers name, if they've added it. Here's mine: http://availability.is/for/niftydigits
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#29If I could sign in with GitHub, absolutely.
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#30Please use infinite scrolling, nobodies want to click “next” every 10 profiles.