Comment by dbKooper | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dbKooper | Hacker News Reader

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Thanks for your feedback and perspective. I wanted to hear this. Thanks for that. I get some ideas now from it where the problems lies. I am a tech guy and devs is short for developers in software world. Maybe the common man doesn't understand it. xyzdevs stands for "hire developer for any <-XYZ-> tech stack". I thought it was good enough.

Thats why most developers gave good feedback, lol. as my site speaks to them but not to buyers. Thus, no sales occurred from buyer side.

My target customers are remote tech startups, or founders who are technical enough to hire developers quickly for cheap around the world as hiring full-time itself is very hard and time consuming process. The cost mentioned is total price for a project in their packages. On developer side, it gives a developer chance to monetise their skills in different tech stacks.

Thank you for receiving my feedback.

Regarding the brand, business people understand the word "developer" and "devs", the problem lies more in the xyz.

Most developers gave good feedback because you are promising to them to end their marketing problems, without taking money from them. That is a very good proposition.

In fact, it is too good to be true. No sane person believes this to be real.

Your target customers are "remote tech startups and technical founders" and do you have asked any of them, if they would hire "quickly for cheap"?

You business case is not really clear. So, I hire a freelancer for a project over your site. Why don't I just hire someone on Fiverr then?

Why wouldn't I just contact the developer directly? Why go through your site?

This is from your site:

"XYZDEVS Hiring marketplace is straight-foward, You can hire devs worldwide based on their quality instantly and straightforward. No Joke."

First, it reads exactly like a joke. Second, it has typos.

I applaud you for starting businesses. But please team up with someone who has at least an inkling of an idea what a business is and how a business works. Alternatively you could acquire that knowledge yourself, but that would be a long road.

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