timjahn

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by timjahn 14y ago
Chicago resident here. It's a great city indeed and the startup scene is growing rapidly. Happy to chat/answer any questions you have about it all. tim at matchist dot com
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SendGrid has a fantastic Parse API for this (available on the free plan): http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/
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Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!
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Tim, co-founder of matchist here. Just to clarify, we vet both talent and clients.
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Thanks!
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This is exactly why I stopped paying for (and eventually using) Rdio. Their mobile app (where I used Rdio 80% of the time) was HORRIBLE at keeping the music playing non-stop, without tons of pauses and dropouts. Pandora, on the other hand,
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At the moment, we are accepting U.S. based developers only. We hope to change that down the road. I know that's a shitty answer, but due to our payments provider, and the fact that we don't want to jump in the deep end right away, that's
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Developer FAQ page is up for ya. https://matchist.com/developer-faq
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We just posted a developer FAQ hopefully answering a lot of the common questions asked here today. https://matchist.com/developer-faq
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Appreciate your support!
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Great questions! "How does Machist get their clients?" We are utilizing a combination of content marketing, working our own networks, and participating in various startup communities to find entrepreneurial clients looking to build their be
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Appreciate the feedback. And thanks for the kind words on the design. That was all done by our good friend Brice Faubel (www.bricefaubel.com).
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Truly appreciate the feedback. And you're spot on about the FAQ page. Going to get that up sooner than later.
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Great question. oDesk is great for a lot of things. But from our chats with freelance developers, they don't find oDesk great for finding quality clients worth the time and money to work with. At matchist, we're focusing more on the vettin
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Easter eggs FTW!
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Right now, you can either be paid through PayPal or be mailed a check. We'll have ACH very soon. If you have other suggestions, we're all ears!
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When we talked to freelance developers, the two biggest complaints we heard were filtering clients and not getting paid on time. These are the two problems we want to solve with matchist: better matches and guaranteed payment. We do take a
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That's a fair point. Appreciate the feedback.
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Well said! That's our goal.
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We take a 10% fee from the developer's payment. We understand that might not be everybody's cup of tea and we're open to any constructive feedback you might have.
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Sorry about that! Getting HNed. :(
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For the segment of people you're targeting, there is very little difference between $3 and $6 a month, let alone $3, $4, $5, and $6 a month. We're talking portions of a Starbucks coffee here. I'd focus on why you're different than the (alr
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SEEKING FREELANCERS - We recently launched the beta version of matchist (matchist.com), a service geared towards accurately matching freelance developers to quality projects. We're currently building up our roster of freelance developers.
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This reads like an article on the Onion. Unbelievable.
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Yes, we do. You can sign up for it here: http://eepurl.com/lYvxz
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I know, it kills me to have to have that disclaimer on there. The reason is twofold: 1) Our payments platform supports U.S. only at the moment. 2) We want to start small and with what we know. That said, we plan on growing this down the r
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This is great advice. As a former freelance developer, I used to do this often and honestly, it's not a bad deal. As you mentioned, although you're generally going to get a lower rate, you get regular work and you're no longer the sales t
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We're building matchist (matchist.com) to solve this exact problem. Don't compete with low-cost overseas developers and spend all day bidding for projects. Instead, sign up for the matchist beta ( http://matchist.com/talent ). We believe i
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Clickable link: https://matchist.com
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Ask HN: What should our value proposition be?
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