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Wow. Thank you for the insights.. I've added your suggestion to this ever-growing list of to-do.. eventually, the app should get polished up well with these qui
by james-fend 15y ago
Wow. Thank you for the insights.. I've added your suggestion to this ever-growing list of to-do.. eventually, the app should get polished up well with these quirks.
The issue with quality of projects is quite a complicated problem. There were quite a few ways to tackle this problem, but in the end I decided to leave it open and follow the flow with a live app in the wild. Just off the top of my head, these came to mind:
- Pre-qualify all projects
- Pre-quality all freelancers before signing up
- Create a must-use middle man on all projects started with a project manager assigned to it
Even with the list of just those three, the cause and effect of implementing each pigeon holes the business model a lot. Although; doing any of those three or anything else is not out of the question either.
At the end of the day; I guess what I am trying to say is I decided to leave the system completely open and eventually find Freelancify's "calling" and path and follow that to transform into a service that fills the hole (the exact problem you described) that neither Elance, oDesk, etc. fills right now. I think by listening to users, it'll eventually get there. And by Freelancify being a startup and not huge like the others, it has the luxury to pivot and move.
- joshuahedlund 15y agoI don't have a lot of experience with freelance sites (I watched the small business I work for use 99designs for something) but just something I thought of to try to solve the problem of unrealistic underfunded projects, not sure if anyone does this: Have a little up/down box by each project where browsing freelancers can rate if they think it's a good price or way too much for what they're asking. If an unknowledgeable project submitter gets a 10/10 or so feedback ratio they could feel pretty good about their submission, but if they get 0/30 they might realize they need to raise their price a bit.
- james-fend 15y agoBRILLIANT IDEA!!
- bdg 15y agoIf you use Trello I'd suggests creating a board with some groups on it: "Itches" - Non-technical things that annoy you/customers about your product. "Glitches" - Bugs you're working on "Tweaks" - UI/UX related adjustments "Strengths" - Know what's good about your app