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I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

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post #24

Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…

Wow. Thank you for the insights.. I've added your suggestion to this ever-growing list of to-do.. eventually, the app should get polished up well with these quirks. The issue with quality of projects is quite a complicated problem. There were quite a few ways to tackle this problem, but in the end I decided to leave it open and follow the flow with a live app in the wild. Just off the top of my head, these came to mi…

I don't have a lot of experience with freelance sites (I watched the small business I work for use 99designs for something) but just something I thought of to try to solve the problem of unrealistic underfunded projects, not sure if anyone does this:

Have a little up/down box by each project where browsing freelancers can rate if they think it's a good price or way too much for what they're asking. If an unknowledgeable project submitter gets a 10/10 or so feedback ratio they could feel pretty good about their submission, but if they get 0/30 they might realize they need to raise their price a bit.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

#42
post #24

Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…

Just wanted to point out that your traffic graph is typical for a relatively new blog. The reason your traffic dropped after the posts to reddit/hn is because those are anomalies. Your organic traffic from search is your real traffic rate. Building this up takes time, a lot of time. More than 1 year with constant blog posting.

Sad but true. I'm in the same boat and my traffic graph looks exactly the same as yours :)

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

#43
post #24

Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…

Just wanted to point out that your traffic graph is typical for a relatively new blog. The reason your traffic dropped after the posts to reddit/hn is because those are anomalies. Your organic traffic from search is your real traffic rate. Building this up takes time, a lot of time. More than 1 year with constant blog posting. Sad but true. I'm in the same boat and my traffic graph looks exactly the same as yours :)

Thanks for the insights, I've been very curious about traffic on blogs such as mine, I intend to make a monthly post that makes my trends transparent so others can see what I do.

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

#44
post #24

Here's some feedback, take with it what you will. I like that you're starting yet another freelancer site, simply because I hate the other ones. They're full of often sub-quality contractors spamming the boards hoping to hit one and take some money. The other bids are from nations where the exchange rate makes my yearly salary make me look like a king. I take what I do seriously, I like serious clients, and I've find…

Wow. Thank you for the insights.. I've added your suggestion to this ever-growing list of to-do.. eventually, the app should get polished up well with these quirks. The issue with quality of projects is quite a complicated problem. There were quite a few ways to tackle this problem, but in the end I decided to leave it open and follow the flow with a live app in the wild. Just off the top of my head, these came to mi…

If you use Trello I'd suggests creating a board with some groups on it:

"Itches" - Non-technical things that annoy you/customers about your product.

"Glitches" - Bugs you're working on

"Tweaks" - UI/UX related adjustments

"Strengths" - Know what's good about your app

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

#45
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wanted to point out that your traffic graph is typical for a relatively new blog. The reason your traffic dropped after the posts to reddit/hn is because those are anomalies. Your organic traffic from search is your real traffic rate. Building this up takes time, a lot of time. More than 1 year with constant blog posting. Sad but true. I'm in the same boat and my traffic graph looks exactly the same as yours :)

Thanks for the insights, I've been very curious about traffic on blogs such as mine, I intend to make a monthly post that makes my trends transparent so others can see what I do.

If you're interested you can see my traffic graph here:

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2012/01/19/blog-micro-transa...

Its the top graph. I post a lot to reddit, which is where those spikes come from.

So far I haven't managed to post a popular article on HN, although others have posted my articles and they have gotten onto the front page, which is a little annoying. Guess the system rates certain people a lot higher depending on their karma...

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

#48
I'm Xposting this from his blog... don't think it will make it past moderation:

Looks intriguing but be very careful with your credibility; a freelancing site that’s considered untrustworthy is a failed freelancing site. I say this because I saw your post about “Launched yesterday” then on your site I see the testimonial “Freelancify helped us find a great designer to get our blog launched. -GrowNasheville” Wait- the site launched yesterday and someone has already taken a transaction from idea to proposal to bidding to work to review to launch & payment? huh? That doesn’t exactly add up… maybe there was a private beta launch with a few dozen vendors and a couple clients…?

Who is this “GrowNasheville”, anyway? GrowNasheville.com/blog/about : “GrowNashville was created and organized by James Fend [the founder of freelancify.com]…” ahh… I see.

You will have testimonials soon enough, I’m sure; having them now is not worth risking your credibility. [EDIT: At the risk of stating the obvious: you can't write your own testimonials.]

Good luck!

Re: I Launched My Startup Yesterday, This Is How The Hectic Day Went

#50
post #48

I'm Xposting this from his blog... don't think it will make it past moderation: Looks intriguing but be very careful with your credibility; a freelancing site that’s considered untrustworthy is a failed freelancing site. I say this because I saw your post about “Launched yesterday” then on your site I see the testimonial “Freelancify helped us find a great designer to get our blog launched. -GrowNasheville” Wait- the…

Also, I dunno if it helps to say you've just launched yesterday. I rather try to pretend that I'm old and established by putting (C) 2008-2012 or something in the footer.
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