malditojavi

'View plans' is a conversion killer. Working in the SEO industry, Im willing to have tools like this, but showing me the prices before of knowing how you pretend to do it, it takes me back. just my 0.02

How big the sampling of that 10% is?

Great insights, thanks for sharing, Sergio.

What's going on between Mailchimp and Beyonce?

You should check out Tictail user onboarding, I'm sure you will like it. They really take in account the kind of audience they are trying to reach out.

Create a fake profile of Ashton Kutcher in it.

'I don't spend any money running my personal blog (it costs me literally $0)' How do you get free lifetime domain and hosting?

Dont' know if they gamed it or not, but I submitted same url without the crappy end a few hours ago before this one. HN is not able to detect doubled URLs?

How do you plan to make the competitors research? I think the guys in http://www.compass.co/ have a great product, but sincerely if they don't share revenue of it with startups and businesses that are the ones providing data & info, it won't work.

Thanks for your comment. In fact, you are not the first one complaining about that (another reader named it as 'user-hostile blog'), and I guess this is an invaluable insight for improving http://manycontacts.com

Different job applications. I know for a real and accurate a/b test, those job applications should be the same, but it was not like that.

You are right, Abid. No info shared about how much time takes to complete all the 'certification exams' present also in other workforce-on-demand platforms, that I tell, they took some considerable part of your time.

2012, working +1200 hours, was not my working best year. I sacrified a lot of my (free?)time to apply for new jobs, get new contracts, make internal research on how to improve my opportunities of having more employers interested in me. Working stituation sometimes overexceed my capacity to manage it, and I experienced an anxiety attack mainly produced by having almost no disconnection time.

Future is now and working on remote is possible and a great opportunity. Nonetheless, working on remote should not imply to low insanely your rates just for the fact that you are working from other place (and you are not consuming office supplies, office space). It's just question of learning how to deal with a new situation of selling your services to someone that is just contacting you virtually.

And no, imho, it was not sustainable to work like this. At least, not with those rates.

I'm planning to talk about this widely in the newsletter, feel free to join it.

btw 'Hire meat $4/h' is a killer add https://twitter.com/malditojavi/status/399545792114851842

I feel your pain, Paul. It's true that there are some contractors willing to sell themselves for some bucks, while there are other real professionals that know what are they limit rates and what is the threshold of rates they can play with. imho, first group won't never last a large period in workforce-on-demand platforms cause of: 1.not making enough money to survive 2. getting pissed of junk jobs

Probably you are right. I was still drafting the final post when I saw it in HN.

I see no reason to be ashamed. If you think your skills are going to provide them a higher income, increase your rates and explain why you are doing it. I have learnt a lot from Brennan Dunn's blog: http://brennandunn.com/ I'm sure it will provide you some good insights.

Thanks Pedro! Sometimes I see Internet is full of people willing to help. Thanks again.

My hourly salary has changed a lot since my first contracts. I started around $ 9.00 USD/hour. I plan to extend the post and explain not how I have increased my rates till my current rate, but also how I dealt with employers not willing to pay more.

$ 23358.60 USD approx. I have made public my accounting sheet, check it out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFzKOfWdj-jdDJ...

Might I have know something else about how did you build your credit system? Im interested in it for a uni project.

If they don't share revenue with their users, the ones that make the real app, it might kill itself imho.

None post is good without good data, and they are good at that too.

Actually, they want to make videos not only for big companies but also for small products > http://sandwichvideo.com/how-it-works/

It would be cool if any in Lob could answer how they deal with these kind of situations, cause I guess they have already experienced some of them.

'Funding isn’t success. Revenue is' that's the key of the whole business.

Thanks for sharing it, Thibaut. I'm based in Belgium, and it's true that vat issue is solved with Recurly (and hopefully in a near future with Stripe).

not mine.