Elven.io – Send an email to get any Python programming job done

Post by Gys » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 10:22 PM UTC

Post by giaour » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 10:47 PM UTC

Post by x5n1 » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

escobar wrote: post #5

giaour wrote: post #4

$50/hour seems really low. It makes me think that the elves are inexperienced or that this is just a thin wrapper around Mechanical Turk or oDesk. EDIT: This was not meant to be a criticism of whoever built this, but a bit of marketing advice. As someone who might use a service like this, I would pause before using short-term contract programmers that cost $50 an hour. Consultancies bill out fresh grads at rates cons…

Yeah, I do a fair amount of small Python gigs in my free time and $50 seems a bit low to me as well. Just talked to a head hunter the other week, and was told their Python devs are commanding much more than $50/hr. Makes me wonder what was going on behind the curtains here as well.

Post by giaour » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 11:12 PM UTC

syllogism wrote: post #7

giaour wrote: post #4

$50/hour seems really low. It makes me think that the elves are inexperienced or that this is just a thin wrapper around Mechanical Turk or oDesk. EDIT: This was not meant to be a criticism of whoever built this, but a bit of marketing advice. As someone who might use a service like this, I would pause before using short-term contract programmers that cost $50 an hour. Consultancies bill out fresh grads at rates cons…

Seems solid to me. At the start the founders will fill the requests, and slowly onboard staff. While the founders are filling the requests they're possibly running at a "loss" from opportunity cost, but I can easily see them being willing to do that. Wrapping odesk or MTurk is the last thing they'd want to do. It kills the edge they have, of zero project management overhead.

Post by kwjoshua » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 11:17 PM UTC

x5n1 wrote: post #6

escobar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I do a fair amount of small Python gigs in my free time and $50 seems a bit low to me as well. Just talked to a head hunter the other week, and was told their Python devs are commanding much more than $50/hr. Makes me wonder what was going on behind the curtains here as well.

Not just that it's low, it's also a fact that little jobs have more uncovered overhead. It's a new domain that you have to wrap your head around, etc. No body knows right off the top of their head to get everything done. I don't see the pricing as viable.