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Sorry to hijack, but what's with the compensation estimates on gun.io?

It seems like there is some good work on the site but everything seems to be < $500 or > $10k, but there is no basis for the price (is it project pricing, is it per week, did the client estimate it or did you?)

I'm interested in using the site, I guess I just don't know how.

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Hey man - awesome, thanks for the question. we clearly have a self-interest in talking about this publicly, but I don't wanna derail the ongoing conversation!! I'd track you down but maybe that'd be a bit weird! Just drop me a line at teja@gun.io and let's chat!

Although, just so it's not like I'm dodging your question for any onlookers, fixed price estimates are the way to go for a number of reasons (alignment of incentives, doesn't penalize high productivity, etc). The clients do the pricing, generally, but if something looks silly, we try to step in.

I think my main confusion was that there are a few things that appear to be full-time jobs but only list $250 - $500

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