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by timjahn 13y ago
Justin, To reiterate, I encourage you to shoot me an email (tim at matchist) to address you getting irrelevant or uninteresting work from us. We have the type of work you're looking for (the Pivotal Labs work in your analogy) and we ha
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by timjahn 13y ago
Justin, As co-founder of matchist, and more importantly, a past freelance web developer of many years, your comment makes me pretty sad. The fact that we're not helping you the way you need to be helped is a problem. First, I encourage
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Ask HN: Freelance developers, what would make you more successful?
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"Money is this magical barrier to all sorts of annoying daily minutiae--even a little bit is enough to let you shrug off the effects of suboptimal decisions. Being able to simply buy a lunch when you forgot to bring one can change your
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I was under the impression you could only use their prefunding services for clients you sourced on Elance or the marketplace, not with any clients you sourced elsewhere.
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Yeah, very familiar with that story (and a big fan). We very well might. :) Thanks!
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That's great to hear. I think every freelancer wants to end up there. So you never have problems with clients no paying (either on time or at all)?
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Ask HN: Freelancers, would you pay for service that ensures your clients prepay?
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Wait, that's from Seinfeld, no?
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Amazing book! Hope they finally make it into a movie sometime soon.
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Does Elance let you bring on your own clients (not sourced through Elance) to use the prefunding?
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Ask HN: Freelancers, would you pay for a service that let your clients prepay?
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Airlines Still Trying to Make Passenger Boarding Less Annoying(wired.com)
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It sounds like the OP was burned at least once by a freelancer in the past. We come across folks like this every so often at matchist ( http://matchist.com ). The biggest problem we often see (and I've seen in my previous exp
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That Time When A Customer Threatened To Take Us To Court (And What We Learned)(matchist.com)
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The 25 Best U.S. Cities for Tech Startups(entrepreneur.com)
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I hear where you're coming from. Definitely a totally different game when you start throwing in families and financial obligations.
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The 3 Biggest Emotions From Quitting My Day Job To Work On My Startup(matchist.com)
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I agree, but I find the Internet in general (and companies surrounded around it) often seems like a magical land to people.
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I suppose it depends on what your business does and/or where you live. I co-founded matchist, a site that helps people find web and mobile developers. Not everybody who I explain what I do to knows what a developer is.
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4 Ways To Make Your Live Chat Useful To Your Customers(matchist.com)
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Really? I'm on the Blue Line down the Kennedy most mornings/evenings, often looking out at the gridlocked traffic, and have yet to see a single one.
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"Real developers" are too busy developing to complain about why X language sucks for Y reasons. There are many tools available to us developers. Use the ones you see fit and forget wasting time blasting other developers for using
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Why Elance Wastes My Time- A Typical Experience(matchist.com)
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On that note, Patrick, ask him to move your audio to be in the center (stereo wise), rather than entirely on the right channel as it is now. If you listen with headphones to this episode, Keith is spread across both left and right while yo
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We're building matchist to a) help freelance developers find worthwhile work while getting paid on time, every time ( http://matchist.com/talent ) and b) help clients find quality developers to handle anything from simpl
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Exactly.
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I think you're on the right track in determining what your "value add" is to a client beyond straight development, and that should definitely help you differentiate from the myriad of other freelance developers out there. We
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The SEC's Removal of General Solicitation Changes Everything(forbes.com)
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Want to Raise Money For Your Startup? Read This First.(matchist.com)
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