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Hi Andrew. I've just registered, looks like a great service. A few initial impressions: I'd like to be able to express my pricing in both an hourly rate and fu

Hi Andrew. I've just registered, looks like a great service. A few initial impressions: I'd like to be able to express my pricing in both an hourly rate and full project value. Also, support for multiple currencies would be nice, there will be plenty of users who want to bill in EUR or GBP.

andrewhyde 17y ago
Added to the roadmap, will let you know when we push it live. The pricing for day rate is more on an estimate the freelancer can use as an example and build their custom hourly rate from there. Project rate gets around the 'low hourly rate but lots of hours' problem.
- danohuiginn 17y ago
  relatedly, the profile page asks me to fill out: Budget range [ ] to [ ] There's no explanation of what you want there, and I'm uncertain what to enter (dollar amounts of the min/max project I'd consider working on? I'm not sure I could provide useful values here). Some help text or suggested answers would be useful.
  - danohuiginn 17y ago
    Also, in "Where else can people go to find out about you?" I'd rather have space for a second website (in my case, I'd put in a link to the coworking space I use) than for pre-selected social networks. [the whole idea of social network as resume enhancement unnerves me, also; I'm comfortable with the idea of potential clients looking me up on FB &c, but I don't want to shove my profile directly in their face. But that's just me being squeamish about these things] It would also be good to make it clear through the profile-filling process that there is a separate section for a portfolio. I was trying to work out where to fit in mention of things I've worked on.
    - bradleyjoyce 17y ago
      those aren't required fields, if you don't like them you don't have to fill them out
  - JonAtkinson 17y ago
    Could this even be a free text field? Some may prefer to put hourly, per project, or even equity stakes in their terms. Yes, it makes your data a little more difficult to filter, but the flexibility would be nice.

andrewhyde 17y ago

Added to the roadmap, will let you know when we push it live. The pricing for day rate is more on an estimate the freelancer can use as an example and build their custom hourly rate from there. Project rate gets around the 'low hourly rate but lots of hours' problem.

danohuiginn 17y ago
relatedly, the profile page asks me to fill out: Budget range [ ] to [ ] There's no explanation of what you want there, and I'm uncertain what to enter (dollar amounts of the min/max project I'd consider working on? I'm not sure I could provide useful values here). Some help text or suggested answers would be useful.
- danohuiginn 17y ago
  Also, in "Where else can people go to find out about you?" I'd rather have space for a second website (in my case, I'd put in a link to the coworking space I use) than for pre-selected social networks. [the whole idea of social network as resume enhancement unnerves me, also; I'm comfortable with the idea of potential clients looking me up on FB &c, but I don't want to shove my profile directly in their face. But that's just me being squeamish about these things] It would also be good to make it clear through the profile-filling process that there is a separate section for a portfolio. I was trying to work out where to fit in mention of things I've worked on.
  - bradleyjoyce 17y ago
    those aren't required fields, if you don't like them you don't have to fill them out
- JonAtkinson 17y ago
  Could this even be a free text field? Some may prefer to put hourly, per project, or even equity stakes in their terms. Yes, it makes your data a little more difficult to filter, but the flexibility would be nice.