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by mthomasb 9y ago
I used to beat myself up about not remembering details of books, even ones I read only a few months ago. I still try to take notes and revisit those often, but PG's take on this help ed reduced my anxiety about it: > Reading and exp
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by mthomasb 9y ago
When we first launched we didn't have enough data for Europe, but we do now and will update it soon with rates for most European countries and a few others.
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by mthomasb 9y ago
Hey all, Matt from Bonsai (YC W16) here. We provide contracts, proposals, invoices, and other tools to freelancers, mostly developers and designers. We used our anonymized data to break out what freelancers earn with different experience le
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by mthomasb 10y ago
Bonsai (YC W16) | Full Stack Product Engineer | SF or REMOTE Bonsai (hellobonsai.com) helps freelancers simplify their lives with an integrated contract and payments workflow. You’ll join a technical, experienced team that’s backed by some
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Google launches job search API(cloud.google.com)
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by mthomasb 10y ago
To clarify, these are rates that freelancers quote via our contract tool and are paid for via our invoicing tool, so it's pretty verified. We also allow users to submit their rates, but we weight those much less than the data verified
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Facebook threatens LinkedIn with job board feature(techcrunch.com)
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by mthomasb 10y ago
We're a YC company that put together a visualizer for freelance engineering and design rates. It draws on a few thousand data points from our freelance invoice and contract product. You can filter by location, type of work, and experi
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by mthomasb 10y ago
Bonsai (YC W16) | SF or REMOTE | Full Stack Product Engineer Bonsai (hellobonsai.com) helps freelancers simplify their lives with an integrated contract and payments workflow. You’ll join a technical, experienced team that’s backed by some
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Bonsai (YC W16) hiring full stack engineer to build global OS of labor
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by mthomasb 10y ago
Bonsai (YC W16) | Second Non-Founder Engineer (Full Stack) | SF or REMOTE Bonsai (hellobonsai.com) helps freelancers simplify their lives with an integrated contract and payments workflow. You’ll join a technical, experienced team that’s ba
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Non-profit 'hacks' Venmo with donation requests(youtube.com)
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by mthomasb 10y ago
Check out https://jobbatical.com/ . They help you find ~12 month contracts with startups abroad, mostly Western Europe.
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by mthomasb 10y ago
Bonsai (YC W16) | First Non-Founder Engineer (Full Stack) | SF or REMOTE Bonsai (hellobonsai.com) helps freelancers simplify their work with an integrated contract and payments workflow. You’ll join a technical, experienced team that’s back
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by mthomasb 10y ago
It's worth noting that most schools of economics are heavily indebted to physics. This came from a desire to increase economics' perceived rigor, and led to the (mis)appropriation of some core concepts[1]. [1] https://
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Bonsai (YC W16) is hiring our first non-founder full-stack engineer(hellobonsai.com)
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by mthomasb 11y ago
We do support US, UK, Canada, and Australia for contracts. About 20% of our users are Brits. On step 1 of the contract creation process, what happens when you click 'United States'? Also, what browser are you using?
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Not yet but it's been very heavily requested. Definitely looking into it.
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Yep, sample size of a few thousand signed contracts
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by mthomasb 11y ago
As much as freelancers say they hate dealing with clients or invoicing etc, what it all comes down to is the difficulty of managing cash flow. Contracts and invoices are the first step towards a few other cashflow management tools like invo
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Yep, we definitely understand the need for more flexibility. In about 1 week there will be many more options to edit. The big reason we didn't do that sooner is that we didn't want the average user to think they had to really get
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by mthomasb 11y ago
We're working on a big release this week to add flexibility, but the contracts definitely aren't for everyone. If you're a decent sized agency working with larger clients, it probably won't be flexible enough. We try to
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Yep, the contracts include confidentiality and IP assignment. We also see alot of users bringing projects to us from Upwork et al.
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by mthomasb 11y ago
One way to think of the contracts piece is as a RocketLawyer or LegalZoom verticalized for freelancers. We provide contracts that are written and maintained specifically for freelancers, and that beats 99.9% of the generic templates you&#x
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Thanks :) Lots of our users are new freelancers or are making the transition from part to full time freelance. We try to put together resources for them specifically, like a tool to visualize what they should charge: https://www
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Yep, definitely looking to expand international support for contracts and especially payments. That's one of our largest themes in feature requests right now. Thanks for mentioning 2checkout, hadn't heard of them before. We&#x27
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Hey everyone, one of the Bonsai co-founders here. We're former freelancers who realized there's way more to freelancing than good design, development, photography etc. Freelancing is a business and many freelancers lack the intere
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Show HN: Bonsai (YC W16) – bulletproof contracts and payments for freelancers(hellobonsai.com)
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Show HN: Freelance Stack: Curated tools list by 10k+ freelancers(hellobonsai.com)
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by mthomasb 11y ago
Malformed URL here: <p>Jessica Richman, the co-founder and CEO of human microbiome testing startup <a href="ttps://www.ubiome.com">uBiome</a>

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