kylebragger

By the way, I'd be happy to do ten bucks off any approved projects that mention HN.

FWIW we're about to hit 7k subscribers.

Fair point. I am also working on this. I didn't want to necessarily have people copy/paste their entire spec here, only a pitch.

That's my fault for not phrasing the field correctly. It really should be "We need this in X days", and not "This is X days of constant work", which is how most people are interpreting it.

Thanks. It's really exciting to see that this struck a chord with so many people. Interestingly, most signups are devs or designers (or hybrids). Not that many (low 100s) for copywriters and illustrators. I may remove those as an option and just focus on dev/design if becomes clear that's where Tinyproj is heading.

I think that's kind of what I was getting at too. Perhaps duration is the wrong word -- might experiment with deadline/due by or similar.

I think that's an interesting idea. I agree that it's probably a bit confusing/off-putting as it stands now.

Thanks for the feedback. I think part of the issue is that I'm asking folks to give project rates and durations, and it seems (based on the projects submitted thus far) that the duration ends up being a bit of a misnomer. I think a project rate of a few grand for a simple prototype is probably above board, but if you add an erroneous or poorly anticipated duration, it suddenly dilutes the rate into bottom feeder territory. Nonetheless, I'll be revamping some of this so it's much more clear. FWIW, I rejected more projects than I sent out.

Project approval will likely just be a matter of human scale. It takes < 1 min to figure out if it's going to be approved or not. I do have a bunch of automation around stuff like "this isn't quite ready to go out because of X/Y/Z, click here to edit it" and so forth.

Talent side is more interesting. I'm leveraging Forrst's reputation engine to do some behind the scenes ranking of users, at least for the users who have Forrst accounts. Have sketched out some other ideas, but first want to see how the first email fares.

Heh, honestly that's probably what I'll do. We (Forrst) can certainly share the load if/when it becomes necessary.

Edit: https://tinyproj.com

And totally. Email me anytime.

Both great questions.

On the project side, I hand approve every post. Spam/recruiter junk/etc. gets deleted and the email address blacklisted.

For the talent side, yes, you're right; there's a good potential for A++++++++ firm nonsense.

The quick and dirty approach is probably not accurately reflecting the work I've put in/will be putting in behind the scenes, through methods we've developed at Forrst for dealing with reputation, throttling one's ability to mass-contact project owners, anonymizing email on both sides with a one-click "this is spam" function, and so forth.

Ultimately, I agree -- they're great (and hard) problems to solve, and I'm eager to do so.

Interesting idea. Happy to brainstorm about that - kyle at forrst.com

All projects are approved by a human, and on the talent side fake emails that bounce are automatically removed.

Thanks. We'll see how it works out, but yes, that was the intention. I get 6 days to moderate and queue up projects for the next email. Plus, I like the idea of a low/no-effort set up for the talent side -- they get an email they can skim at their leisure, no browsing around and trawling for job listings on a site.

Many thanks.

Thanks for the feedback! I actually had the first item written down, and the more I mull it over the more it makes sense.

Thanks very much. That was indeed the goal.

As to whether this works the way I'm anticipating, only time will tell! I'm predicting, though, that this works as a nice adjunct to directly contacting designers (or anyone else) -- you never know who you're missing, after all. If I've learned one thing from Forrst, it's that for every well-known designer (or developer) out there, there are scores of undiscovered, awesome designers waiting to knock it out of the park on your project.

We can't really release the kind of quick, experimental MVP projects that I'm such a fan of on Forrst since we've got 40k people who will notice a lack of polish and so forth. I wanted to vet this idea quickly without the overhead of expectations from the community. That's not to say this won't be rolled back in somehow. That's a good idea about Acorns, I'll put some thought into it :) And no worries -- totally appreciate the question's directness.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, though I'm focusing specifically on short-term work. It's also a set it and forget it scenario for the talent -- they just get stuff delivered. At the end of the day, it's an experiment and something interesting to work on that could benefit my day job, Forrst, pretty substantially.

I love it. kyle at forrst.com - totally open to chatting/collab.

Anyone can read about it, but you're free to use a pseudonym and generic email address. There is craigslist-style email anonymity, so you get to obscure your identity as long as you'd like to.

Good catch.

Bad/inside joke. People are doing that on Forrst a bunch, so it was more of a nod/friendly jab at them.

Thanks btw! :)

Thanks for this. I've certainly got nothing against WH. I actually would rather Tinyproj not venture into the barter/cofounder space - others are doing that well already :)

You're totally right, and I'm working on that as fast as I can.

* Setting the expectation up front that these are paid projects

* Longer duration than a weekend's time

* Copywriting/Illustration as well

* Working on integrating with Forrst which should bring in many of the 40k members who're available for work, as well as making use of our reputation engine

Heh, I literally just received my SSL certs a few minutes ago. Hang tight.

Thanks!