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Most ridiculous gigs you've been offered?
I've heard of friends being propositioned to build a Groupon clone for $500. And an iPhone app for $600. What's the most ridiculous freelance projects you've been asked to do?
- abbasmehdi 15y agoThese gigs don't sound ridiculous, what they wanna pay does. Plus what happens when something breaks in the future?
- deerparkwater 15y ago$5/month
- kingofspain 15y agoRecently, an iPhone app (which expanded to Android & Blackberry too by the 2nd email - for the same price). I was also required to give guarantees, under penalty of compensation, that Apple would accept it into the app store. I was told the budget was $800 with a possible $200 bonus if it was done within 2 weeks. I've had worse offers in the past but this one was from someone I understand to be fairly well known on the American morning TV circuit.
- allenbrunson 15y agoI am hearing a lot of this too: "You'll get paid when the app is available for sale in Apple's App Store." So ridiculous.
- wsdom 15y agoBuild the 'new" Facebook for a 50% equity stake and no cash. Also the "new" facebooks strategy was to get into all of the Greek scenes and use them as a way to spread. I think they literally watched The Social Network and for verbatim copied the growth strategy but tried to pivot it a little. They also wanted me to sign a non-disclosure because they thought the were on to something. :P
- zubr1768 15y agoIn 2002 someone offered me "stock options" to build a remote control web interface to a dentist chair tricked out with dildos.
- richardjortega 15y agomost awsm post i've ever heard on HN
- wsdom 15y agoAgreed. I am still in a bit of shock. I think I saw that chair on HBO Real Sex when I was 16 or so...
- michaeldhopkins 15y agoYou built it, right?
- devs1010 15y agowork for free and get a "stake" in the business (such as stock, etc), I've had some retards on craigslist send me emails offering this, of course I just deleted it