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Comment by saurabh | Hacker News Reader

You should spend some money and better ask a lawyer about to draft the contract. There is http://www.docracy.com/ though if all you want are examples to study.

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All a lawyer does is copy/paste from LexisNexis and charge you $500 or more for the privilege. You're better off picking up a book on contracts and constructing your own, adding and removing clauses as needed. It takes an afternoon at a Barnes and Noble (or even a library!)

Which book would you recommend?

I don't remember which book I used. It was probably a NOLO guide. You could do a search on amazon for "contract books" and get a selection that would work well, or browse the legal and/or business section of a library or bookstore to find something that works for you.

Do you think there is a marketplace for an application to do this?

I don't now enough about the details, but as someone looking to get into freelancing, I would be interested in some kind of "contract builder".

I'm not a lawyer and I partially agree. But your comment just reminded me of some similar comments I've seen along the lines of "All a programmer does is copy/paste code from stackoverflow and charge you $500 for the privilege ... you're better off picking up a book on PHP web development and constructing your own, adding and removing features as needed."

Thanks for sharing the docracy.com link...that one has some really nice examples...and they're free :-).

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