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Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jmonegro »

garagemc2 wrote: post #39
scorcher wrote: post #20

This seems to be pitched somewhere horrible between the fun side projects ideas site and contract work. Take out the $50 charge and it suddenly looks great $50 isn't very much for a days work. Also if I'm doing contract work it would be nice to pitch the price to the project and my skills rather than having some arbitrary fixed price. If I have taken someone's money they will feel entitled and I have to deal with dif…

I don't think this would be for mission critical projects - that stuff will be done by the inhouse team. Just small things that I can get done over the weekend that will make stuff better. E.g. adding responsive design, optimising widget y etc Also the $50 fee should be conditional upon a developer being successfully picked - at least initially so to boost volume.

I somewhat agree. How about not charging the fee until someone actually applies for a project? For now, I'll just refund empty projects.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by InAnEmergency »

jmonegro wrote: post #11

Alright, I'm working on the signup errors. It appears to be hit and miss. I personally can't replicated but I'm upping the dynos on heroku and checking my code. Thanks!

I often see this with sites that assume a GitHub account has an associated public email, when that is not always true. The Devise gem for Rails has this issue, if you are using that.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jmonegro »

ZiadHilal wrote: post #38
scorcher wrote: post #20

This seems to be pitched somewhere horrible between the fun side projects ideas site and contract work. Take out the $50 charge and it suddenly looks great $50 isn't very much for a days work. Also if I'm doing contract work it would be nice to pitch the price to the project and my skills rather than having some arbitrary fixed price. If I have taken someone's money they will feel entitled and I have to deal with dif…

I was under the impression that GetHacker receives $50, it's the price a client has to pay in order to connect with a developer. Then you the developer would be able to negotiate costs with the client in private.

That's mostly right, yes.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jmonegro »

amikazmi wrote: post #35
scorcher wrote: post #20

This seems to be pitched somewhere horrible between the fun side projects ideas site and contract work. Take out the $50 charge and it suddenly looks great $50 isn't very much for a days work. Also if I'm doing contract work it would be nice to pitch the price to the project and my skills rather than having some arbitrary fixed price. If I have taken someone's money they will feel entitled and I have to deal with dif…

I was under the impressions that it cost 50$ to submit a project (the site fee), in addition to the payment for the developer.

Correct.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by mahmoudhossam »

jmonegro wrote: post #33
colinsidoti wrote: post #29

I will never understand reliance on Github for screening applicants. Here, the people that need a hacker probably have no idea what to look for in a Github account.

We only use github for auth. Then, developers fill out their profiles with links to their work, bios, and skill list.

You should add bitbucket too, they have an auth api as well.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Clients are fed up with broken promises and shoddy work from the hordes of "freelance" sites and low-cost development shops around the world. Similarly, the best Indie designers and developers struggle to be matched with great clients and differentiate themselves online.

Many have tried to fix this and some succeeded to an extend. The deeper issue with such an initiative is how can you maintain the quality, that you promised, over a period of time.

You have to be on it all the time and you cannot let anything on its own. A good developer may be over-worked and may not deliver on another project, whilst she did an awesome work on the earlier one.

Disclaimer for this plug: I'm one of the co-founder of http://lxidd.com/ and we have been trying to solve this problem at a larger scale and magnitude. We're opening up only to select Clients and only via referral and introductions.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jmonegro »

wildmXranat wrote: post #23

It's under heavy load and possible during development. I will wait when it start loading later tonight. edit: site actually loaded, but sing-up for developers failed . Also, please be more up-front about how and how much a developer gets paid. Is the $50 a project submission fee ? Is the $50 the actual income submitted to the developer minus your commision ?

Hi,

Can you try signing up again? The $50 is the submission fee, separate from what the developer gets.

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