I love how this is progressing. One bit of feedback, I would love to see more legitimately "tiny" projects become available-- most of those sent out every week are $500-$2000 and require multiple week commitments. If there's a market for smaller projects or libraries that need work in the $100-$500 range, I would snap up those in my spare time. Obviously those kinds of projects have to exist first to be listed, so not much of a feature suggestion so much as a general desire :)
Tinyproj - Week One Recap
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#12The guidelines sensibly mention to use a contract. Does tinyproj have anything to assist there? I've used 99designs once before and it was good that they took care of the contract between designer and client.
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#13The guidelines sensibly mention to use a contract. Does tinyproj have anything to assist there? I've used 99designs once before and it was good that they took care of the contract between designer and client.
Actually yes. Working on this over the next few weeks. If it works as expected it will be a few clicks and out comes a contract.
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#14I love how this is progressing. One bit of feedback, I would love to see more legitimately "tiny" projects become available-- most of those sent out every week are $500-$2000 and require multiple week commitments. If there's a market for smaller projects or libraries that need work in the $100-$500 range, I would snap up those in my spare time. Obviously those kinds of projects have to exist first to be listed, so no…
I'm sure you will find no shortage of $100-$500 projects on sites like odesk. There's a threshold at which it seems to not be worth the time though.
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#15One of the problems I had was that the link to learn more about a project sends the email. I was curious, and there wasn't much (immediate) explanation of what the consequences of the link were, so I clicked. Yes, one of the pages that's linked in the sent email is to the guidelines saying "don't click unless you're actually interested", but the consequences of clicking links isn't explained before the project list i…
You're right -- it was a big issue for folks, which is why I ended up scrapping it in lieu of the new process: - you get the project email and click "learn more" - that takes you to a page w/ details and an "i'm interested" button - clicking that button tells the project owner - the project owner then chooses to initiate contact further (which is why it's helpful to have a URL on your account.) - that is what sends t…
To be honest I prefer the way it was before. Clicking the link would send the email. That was the beauty of it. Cluttering the interface with webforms all over the place will just make your service more like dozens of other out there.
Of course, you would have to require good descriptions from the project owners.
But I still love the interface love the simplicity of the interface. Email, never gets old.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right -- it was a big issue for folks, which is why I ended up scrapping it in lieu of the new process: - you get the project email and click "learn more" - that takes you to a page w/ details and an "i'm interested" button - clicking that button tells the project owner - the project owner then chooses to initiate contact further (which is why it's helpful to have a URL on your account.) - that is what sends t…
To be honest I prefer the way it was before. Clicking the link would send the email. That was the beauty of it. Cluttering the interface with webforms all over the place will just make your service more like dozens of other out there. Of course, you would have to require good descriptions from the project owners. But I still love the interface love the simplicity of the interface. Email, never gets old.
I hear you. I'm going to leave it as is for the next send and watch what happens. I think it's still sufficiently simple right now, since it only adds one click (which I think could be called a confirmation click) to the intro experience on the talent side. Time will tell, though.
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#17I love how this is progressing. One bit of feedback, I would love to see more legitimately "tiny" projects become available-- most of those sent out every week are $500-$2000 and require multiple week commitments. If there's a market for smaller projects or libraries that need work in the $100-$500 range, I would snap up those in my spare time. Obviously those kinds of projects have to exist first to be listed, so no…
I'm sure you will find no shortage of $100-$500 projects on sites like odesk. There's a threshold at which it seems to not be worth the time though.
Many of those projects are poorly defined and ask too much work for the payment. The OP is asking for projects at a lower cost and lower time commitment, not devalued work.
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#18I love how this is progressing. One bit of feedback, I would love to see more legitimately "tiny" projects become available-- most of those sent out every week are $500-$2000 and require multiple week commitments. If there's a market for smaller projects or libraries that need work in the $100-$500 range, I would snap up those in my spare time. Obviously those kinds of projects have to exist first to be listed, so no…
This has been an interesting issue -- I want to encourage small stuff like that (perhaps a quick icon/UX analysis or whatever) that's only a few hours of work. Though, I found when I had the min. budget at $100, I got a -lot- of low quality stuff. Setting the min to $500 has staved that off somewhat.
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#19Cool! Thanks for releasing your data. (We're playing in the same space at gun.io - I think they call this 'validating the market.')
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#20I love how this is progressing. One bit of feedback, I would love to see more legitimately "tiny" projects become available-- most of those sent out every week are $500-$2000 and require multiple week commitments. If there's a market for smaller projects or libraries that need work in the $100-$500 range, I would snap up those in my spare time. Obviously those kinds of projects have to exist first to be listed, so no…
Hrm, what languages are you open to doing library work for? Any further constraints (e.g. only OSS, etc.)?