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Hey everyone, one of the Bonsai co-founders here. We're former freelancers who realized there's way more to freelancing than good design, development, photogra

Hey everyone, one of the Bonsai co-founders here. We're former freelancers who realized there's way more to freelancing than good design, development, photography etc. Freelancing is a business and many freelancers lack the interest / skills to create effective contracts, manage cash flow properly, etc. Our first two products are contracts & payments. We had a Stanford lawyer who writes novels on the side draft solid, plain English contract templates. We built a simple, helpful mad-libs style workflow to create the contracts. And finally, we have invoices that can be automatically generated and sent from those contracts. Our initial users are getting paid about two weeks faster than they were before Bonsai. Would love to hear what you guys think and answer any questions you have about Bonsai or the freelancing business in general. Edit: Also, in TC: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/22/bonsai-wants-to-be-the-freelancers-best-friend/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/22/bonsai-wants-to-be-the-free...

Hilyin 11y ago
This is really cool!
nickpsecurity 11y ago
I like the concept. I'm with another commenter in wondering if contracts to invoice ratio and low price affects your ability to profitably run the business. Me personally, Im also wondering if algorithms you use for generating contracts run fast enough that doing it takes almost no hardware and allows for liw price. Is that the case?
gmisra 11y ago
This looks interesting for me, thanks for sharing! Question: what is your end-of-life plan in the event of acquisition or business shut down?
- jayliew 11y ago
  It depends. When are you expecting to go out of business? Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them, I'm just annoyed by what you're insinuating. Dude. This is not a life altering business proposition. If your business is torpedoed because you suddenly forgot how to cut and paste, you've got other problems.
zwetan 11y ago
look nice couple of questions - do you plan to make it work with something like Paypal API ? - maybe other language than English ? look promising anyway

Hilyin 11y ago

This is really cool!

nickpsecurity 11y ago

I like the concept. I'm with another commenter in wondering if contracts to invoice ratio and low price affects your ability to profitably run the business. Me personally, Im also wondering if algorithms you use for generating contracts run fast enough that doing it takes almost no hardware and allows for liw price. Is that the case?

gmisra 11y ago

This looks interesting for me, thanks for sharing! Question: what is your end-of-life plan in the event of acquisition or business shut down?

jayliew 11y ago
It depends. When are you expecting to go out of business? Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them, I'm just annoyed by what you're insinuating. Dude. This is not a life altering business proposition. If your business is torpedoed because you suddenly forgot how to cut and paste, you've got other problems.

zwetan 11y ago

look nice couple of questions - do you plan to make it work with something like Paypal API ? - maybe other language than English ? look promising anyway