Availability.is

#1

Post by anu_gupta » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

Re: Availability.is

#2

Post by jameszhang » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:10 PM UTC

Neat idea. I would expect there to be a link to each freelancer's portfolio/personal website before ever considering clicking on "Hire Me".

Re: Availability.is

#3

Post by bsimpson » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:16 PM UTC

QA:

- 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 and made a calendar (thinking it was required) in GC, but I can't link it to your site.

- It isn't made clear during registration that the availability calendar is a feature, not a requirement.

Re: Availability.is

#4

Post by notahacker » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

jameszhang wrote: post #2

Neat idea. I would expect there to be a link to each freelancer's portfolio/personal website before ever considering clicking on "Hire Me".

The ability to filter by more specific skills, rates and locations (including possible future locations...) would also be very useful

Re: Availability.is

#5

Post by krallin » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #3

QA: - 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

Re: Availability.is

#6

Post by dewey » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

Just a minor thing: You could replace the "tick" icon with Font Awesome [1] icons so they wouldn't look pixelated on retina displays.

[1] http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

Re: Availability.is

#7

Post by haydenjameslee » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

ratings would be awesome :)

Re: Availability.is

#8

Post by rpedela » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:29 PM UTC

It is missing an explanation of what it is, ratings, reviews, resumes. Also how is this different than other sites where you can hire programmers?

Re: Availability.is

#9

Post by joe5150 » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:42 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #3

QA: - 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…

If you enter a username that contains a period (and possibly other non-alphanum characters?), the profile 404s as well.

Re: Availability.is

#10

Post by ianwootten » Sun, Dec 08, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #3

QA: - 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…

Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently dealing with a 2 m/o baby but will get right on with fixing these as soon as I can...