Idea Validation: A side project management tool

Posted by sgdheeban on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:16PM
from the self-post dept.

Please help validate the following idea with your feedback. This will save me a lot of time. Thanks a lot in advance.

A toolkit that enables the customer to easily hire with confidence & stick with the best freelancer, get regular updates, track progress of the project, and replace freelancers if needed. Our typical customer is someone who needs assistance on his/her side project. The tool also helps the freelancer to find new leads and help with maintaining the customer relationship through purpose built tools. This is a SaaS product charging $10 per month per freelancer. Free for the customer. #idea-validation

Please comment both the positives and negatives about this approach. Thanks.

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by MyNyNex on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:12AM (#19937716)

That looks like to be a good idea, would'n that be something like a "Polished tech Fiverr"?

I just don't like the idea of "replace freelancers if needed", as you might know catching up with a ongoing tech project is not always easy, having the ability to replace the freelancer (if he is taking to long or something) might not be a good idea.

I would say that a normal/ignorant project manager using your site (those who understand tech as i understand oil platforms) will be always switching freelancers and he will lose interest in your service really quick.

Try to focus on giving both ends good reasons to be on your platform, not just for the guy that is hiring!

That's my 5 cents!

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by sgdheeban on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:39PM (#19941806)

Excellent suggestion. Will keep that in mind. Thanks for the detailed post !

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by sgdheeban on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:27PM (#19942683)

Also can this be called a Freelancer CRM ... as it looks more like a customer relationship management tool for a freelancer, than a freelancing platform ?

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by return1 on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:47AM (#19938970)

That sounds a lot like upwork though. Or are you building the Uber of freelance work, in which you maintain a pool of vetted freelancers?

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by sgdheeban on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:39PM (#19941802)

Yes. Goal is to vet freelancers and at this point it looks similar to upwork. There is a difference though, that unlike Upwork, which sends unlimited proposal (which makes the user select one)... this tool would connect the best matching person based on past data on chat directly.

Not sure, if this is a good enough idea or there is room for improvement over Upwork. Hence, validating the idea here. Please let me know what you think.

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by return1 on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:25PM (#19942200)

I wouldn't know. Another thing to look at is worklist.net, which is a system in which developers are bidding to complete dev tasks for open source.

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by ahazred8ta on Sunday May 19, 2019 @05:19PM (#19955577)

worklist.net was an internal scheduler used only by developers for one VR project, which stopped paying for gigs last year.

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by sgdheeban on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:26PM (#19943250)

Thanks for the info.

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by ghettolabs on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:42AM (#19940026)

This is a great idea. Having multiple side projects, one can easily get lost on objectives.

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Re:Idea Validation: A side project management tool by sgdheeban on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:40PM (#19941810)

Thanks for the response. What ideal features would you like to see on such a platform as a customer who manages multiple side projects ?

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