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Show HN: BidOnMyDay, bid to have me fly to you and do anything
Looking for feedback on my newest project, BidOnMyDay: http://bidonmyday.com
I came up with this idea a few weeks ago when JetBlue reopened sales of their BluePass. You bid to have my fly to you, using my BluePass, and do whatever work you need done. I'm a web developer but I'm willing to do almost anything. Bids start at $1.
To add additional value I'm doing a video and blog post of each job, with do-follow backlinks.
http://bidonmyday.com
- marquis 15y agoSeems like a great way for a startup to get some inexpensive attention via your services. Wish I had something to offer right now, good luck!
- saintfiends 15y agohttp://bidonmyday.com http://bidonmyday.com
- jrubinovitz 15y agoI'm viewing your site with Chrome on Ubuntu and your linked text is overlapping onto your other text. Sounds like a fun idea, though. I hope that you'll keep records for us to see. EDIT: So is your bolded text.
- driverdan 15y agoI'm looking into it. It's probably a font issue since Linux fonts are a bit different than OS X and Windows.
- BSeward 15y agoThis is a great idea and I hope it brings you a month of interesting adventures. That said, hope you'll be cleaning my home some time soon. :p
- jayliew 15y agoI like the idea, a pretty radical one too! :) All the best!! Do share the results with the community
- kgen 15y agoInteresting idea, though I can't help but think that you should have left a little more time for this to spread (it's labour day weekend after all)?
- driverdan 15y agoHad I thought of it a month or two ago I would have given it a lot more time for promotion. I've been working on it for a few weeks and needed to launch. The BluePass is only good Aug 22 to Nov 22. There are still parts I'm working on completing, like outgoing email and automatic confirmation.
- hrabago 15y agoGood luck! I was considering bidding, but learned that JetBlue doesn't fly to where I am.
- TomGullen 15y agoNo bids yet? Come on people, looks good! Would bid but we are in London :(
- BigGirlsAreBest 15y agoDoesn't mention whether this includes the option of "adult" services.
- driverdan 15y agoI'll take those on a case-by-case basis ;)
- nazgulnarsil 15y agotangential: it amazes me more attractive women don't pull a natalie dylan.
- qw 15y agoMy guess is that most women who decide to try prostitution has had sex before.
- nazgulnarsil 15y agoI dunno, once you hit 6 figures calling it prostitution seems...like it violates the connotations built into that word. Much less seven figures, enough to retire on.
- capdiz 15y agoWow good idea man.
- Shenglong 15y ago... is this right - someone bid $20,000?
- BigGirlsAreBest 15y agoBBBJ perhaps.
- brockf 15y agoAny plans for carbon offset? Please?
- walkon 15y agoYou could buy up all his days and tell him his job is to not fly anywhere.
- driverdan 15y agoIf I can find a legitimate way of doing it that's backed by science and not some feel-good greenwashing I'd consider it. Recommendations?
- brockf 15y agohttp://store.terrapass.com/store/c/18-Carbon-offsets.html http://store.terrapass.com/store/c/18-Carbon-offsets.html I know South Park-style anti-liberalism can be fun, but we don't have to let the word "green" be sucked up by big business. Offset your carbon for this little adventure of yours, please. Sometimes, flight travel is unavoidable, and, sometimes, people can barely afford the flight yet alone offsets. However, this whole experiment is obviously not about affordability or unavoidable flights, right? Thank you!
- brockf 15y agoHaha downvoted, really? Anyone want to enlighten me as to why?
- waitwhat 15y agoYou might want to put a comment somewhere that bids will only be accepted if it is actually possible to fly JetBlue to get to the bidder's home/business.
- driverdan 15y agoI'll accept any location if the bidder wants to pay for the additional transportation. Antartica? No problem!
- dekz 15y agoAny plans to turn this into something similar to Kickstarter where bidders can post their task for you and others can attempt to pay additional money to see it happen? Or is this meant to me more of a surprise for you on arrival?
- WadeWilliams 15y agoPending Success, consider opening this up to anyone with the Blue Pass. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would be interested in this work model, should be easy enough for you to take a small percentage of each accepted bid.
- philiphodgen 15y agoI have Dan this Saturday. A day of brainstorming the re-architecture of my website. No coding. Just thinking.