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This seems to be pitched somewhere horrible between the fun side projects ideas site and contract work. Take out the $50 charge and it suddenly looks great

$50 isn't very much for a days work. Also if I'm doing contract work it would be nice to pitch the price to the project and my skills rather than having some arbitrary fixed price. If I have taken someone's money they will feel entitled and I have to deal with difficult clients vague requirements and suchlike. They will also (presumably) retain the rites for the code produced.

Remove the $50 and it can be just for fun. I can bail on people I don't want to work with and I can retain the code if I want to extend it or show it off on my GitHub.

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Hmmm... I don't think that the $50 is going to the hacker. I think that is just the fee for GetHacker to connect the project owner with a developer.

See the 'get to work' bubble on the homepage: "Once a project owner decides to pick you for their project, we'll connect you both via e-mail. The GetHacker process is over, and you both can take it from there." which implies that once a match has been made, there may be further negotiation, but it won't be facilitated by GetHacker.

I don't think this would be for mission critical projects - that stuff will be done by the inhouse team. Just small things that I can get done over the weekend that will make stuff better. E.g. adding responsive design, optimising widget y etc

Also the $50 fee should be conditional upon a developer being successfully picked - at least initially so to boost volume.

I somewhat agree. How about not charging the fee until someone actually applies for a project? For now, I'll just refund empty projects.

I was under the impression that GetHacker receives $50, it's the price a client has to pay in order to connect with a developer. Then you the developer would be able to negotiate costs with the client in private.

That's mostly right, yes.

I was under the impressions that it cost 50$ to submit a project (the site fee), in addition to the payment for the developer.

Correct.

Ahh. Could be me just being dumb but you might want to clarify that on the site. "you both can take it from there." is a bit ambiguous.

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