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by startupstella 14y ago
First of all, congrats! That's awesome :) I would follow startup framework and try to think about what an MVP would be just to test and make sure people would really, actually pay for this instead of just taking their word for it. I had a s
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by startupstella 14y ago
I'm also cofounder of matchist.com, and wanted to weigh in here. This is somewhat of a Jason Fried question...do you want to scale as quickly as possible? Should every business strive to be the biggest or greatest? Or is it more important t
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by startupstella 14y ago
That's fine.
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by startupstella 14y ago
that's good to know. another difference is that GT works with teams (correct me if I'm wrong) and matchist is currently one developer matching per project
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by startupstella 14y ago
My understanding is that GroupTalent works with bigger companies to subcontract freelance talent. We are not working with large companies, but entrepreneurs/agencies/smaller entities.
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by startupstella 14y ago
That's great feedback. We are not really a jobs board...think of us like a recruiter who is technical and actually does their job right. Recruiters take upwards of 40% for project matches...that are pretty bad.(from what I've heard from tal
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by startupstella 14y ago
Hey Joe, these are great points. As startup people, we all take risks on new services. Innovation would never work if people didn't take risks and only used what they were familiar with. You can look at the founders of the company and see t
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by startupstella 14y ago
Those are all great points, but I want to differentiate matchist from "these sorts of services." We focus on making quality connections to people you would otherwise not meet (whether geographic barriers, time limits, etc). Services in the
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by startupstella 14y ago
we have about 100 developers signed up so far, and our success hinges on our ability to make awesome matches for developers...so the more freelance devs sign up, the better the matches will be :)
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Freelancers: High quality projects. Prompt payment.(matchist.com)
23 points by startupstella 14y ago|52 comments
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by startupstella 14y ago
can you share some info on your sales experience and current network?
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Should You Tweet From Your Personal Account, Or Your Startup’s Twitter Account?(matchist.com)
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Ask HN: Freelance devs, what kind of tool will help you?(matchist.com)
1 points by startupstella 14y ago|0 comments
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by startupstella 14y ago
Check out balancedpayments.com. I haven't seen anyone else with an escrow and payments solution that is robust (i havent used them, just doing research for my own projects)
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by startupstella 14y ago
as i've been talking more and more to developers, i keep hearing these same complaints about recruiters. I'm finally trying to make a difference by launching matchist.com, which will be a different kind of recruiting. we'll be catering to f
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by startupstella 14y ago
in a perfect world, everyone can learn from books. i know that my learning style is MUCH more interactive and i only really learn in a classroom setting. Having done the spring dev course for Starter League (then codeacademy) I can tell you
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by startupstella 14y ago
Congrats to all parties involved! I was part of the Spring Dev Class at Code Academy and couldn't be happier for Neal, Mike, Jason and the rest of the hardworking folks who made this possible. Particularly, I applaud the emphasis on using t
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by startupstella 14y ago
This discussion is the reason why I'm starting a site to send freelancers better projects. Check out matchist.com...we're going to start the developer beta next week. The idea is to be Hollywood agents for freelance devs. Any feedback is ap
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How I Saved Over $2,000 On My AirBnB European Vacation(entrepreneursunpluggd.com)
3 points by startupstella 14y ago|0 comments
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by startupstella 14y ago
As an alum of Excelerate Labs, I can tell you this data is nowhere near accurate. For example, FeeFighters exited about 4 months ago and we had about $1.5 million in funding and 8 employees...none of that is listed here. The information is
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Ask HN: Does anyone know of a robust escrow API?
2 points by startupstella 14y ago|2 comments
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Why Mark Zuckerberg is a terrible role model (smallbusiness.yahoo.com)
3 points by startupstella 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Freelance developers, how do you handle dispute resolution?
4 points by startupstella 14y ago|0 comments
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by startupstella 14y ago
Alas, I cannot although I wish I could. I was not interested in working for a big company post-acquisition...hence the name "startup stella." I do hope the guys respond as we always respected the HN community and depended on it greatly. Wha
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by startupstella 14y ago
yep I'm the only woman who was at FeeFighters and I respect Ayn Rand but I've never said anything about objectivism publicly...in fact, I would never recommend any philosophy for entrepreneurs as it is in fact, against my philosophy. So may
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by startupstella 14y ago
would love to chat with you more on this. we want to build something that fits exactly what freelance devs want. if you email me stella at matchist dot com maybe we could set up a quick chat?
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Ask HN: How do freelance developers determine the scope of projects?
12 points by startupstella 14y ago|2 comments
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by startupstella 14y ago
I'm actually working on a project that would help freelancers get qualified leads by doing all the scopework/qualifying for them. I've chatted with a few of you HNers about what you'd like to see, but I'd appreciate any more opinions for ma
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by startupstella 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS- Working on a site that connects freelance developers with quality projects. We would do the vetting for you. Right now, wondering whether there is demand on the developer side for this. If you have 10-15 minutes to chat
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by startupstella 14y ago
i know a lot of people get their daily news from HN, so i thought this was something the community would care about.

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