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I have some feedback for you. First, your business has to solve a very intense chicken or the egg problem. Quality freelancers will not join until there are go
by hluska 10y ago
I have some feedback for you.
First, your business has to solve a very intense chicken or the egg problem. Quality freelancers will not join until there are good projects. And you won't get good projects until you have quality freelancers. In freelancing, the problem is even more difficult to solve as both sides of the exchange require quite a large investment in time. Listing yourself as a freelancer (and building a high quality listing) takes work. And listing a project also takes work. This is an obscenely difficult problem to solve and networking alone will not get you there.
Second, you decided to enter a market with a ton of competition. Your competitors range from the simple but effective (Craiglist) to the complicated but mostly useless. People who list projects are wise to the game - they know that most sites deliver shit. And freelancers are also wise. Whenever I've joined a freelancer website, I've been inundated with 'offers' to do 200 hours of work for $500 USD. How do you provide better value to both sides of the market?
Third, your website is quite bad. If I just navigated there by chance, I'd have no idea what I was even looking at. Much less would I have any idea what to actually do. Your language and choice of words betray a serious lack of professionalism. Work on your copy a touch and maybe find someone to read it over - preferably someone who will tell you the unvarnished truth.
Consider:
"Due to some amount of trolling on the site, filters to be implemented and the site will be cleaned up within the next 24 hours."
That's not only a grammatical nightmare, but you're coming right out and telling people not to trust you!
Or, consider "no bullshit listings for freelancers." At best, that's an extremely unprofessional attempt to sound edgy and hip.
Good luck with this!! You seem like a good person and I'd love to see you fix this (badly broken) business.
- dropit_sphere 10y agoGood, friendly, free, advice! You'd be crazy not to take it, OP. Good luck!
- ziggystardust 10y agoAdvice taken. Thanks for the straight forward feedback! appreciate it :) The site was just a weekend experiment and is not even close to complete, so I'm at a stage where I can consider all your advice and implement whatever seems best for this project. - Clearly nobody thinks the title is professional, so that'll be gone for good - A lot of people said they had no idea what the site offered on the first look, so a landing page probably needs to be added
- robin_reala 10y agoRe ‘no bullshit listings for freelancers’, it worked for Gandi[1]. I guess OP is copying them though. [1] https://www.gandi.net/ https://www.gandi.net/
- danesparza 10y agoGandi also used to compete heavily on price and used simplicity as a niche. (Less so now, I notice).
- ziggystardust 10y agoNop. This is the first time I'm hearing of gandi.net but nice to know