Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by lettergram on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:05PM (#26229812)

I used to offer tutoring for C, Go and Python programming for $50/hr.

I can’t tell you the number of people who asked me to do work on for their day job... I would always accept at $100/hr.

Almost every week I’d max out my 15 hours I’d set aside for “tutoring”. So beyond that I’d charge $200/hr, and I’d still get people for both tutoring and day job style work lol

$1/min is a fair price, but if you’re good you can make a lot more

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by padthai on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:16PM (#26229978)

This is fascinating to me. Is there any particular kind of profile that hired you as a ghostwriter? Do these people know how to do their work and decide to outsource it or they have no clue and just got lucky in the interviews?

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by daniellarusso on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:07PM (#26230631)

There was a story about a developer from IBM that hired somebody, and was only discovered because the inbound VPN IP was from a different country.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by branon on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:23PM (#26230830)

I would like to read this story!

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by MattGaiser on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:29PM (#26230908)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21043693

Not the same one in all likelihood though.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by 908B64B197 on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:36PM (#26230988)

That's a failure from the dev and management.

Being able to find and get repeatable good results from contractors across the globe and manage them is a skill in itself.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by shawn-furyan on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:10PM (#26233458)

I like this because it's a really off the wall take, but it also feels a little bit like the sort of reasoning that gets you tangled up with a Bernie Madoff type figure.

It's true that unscrupulous people are often very effective. But it's also true that they are unscrupulous. Leaning into lack of scruples probably isn't the most stable of pro business strats, but I imagine it works out sometimes.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by irjustin on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:59PM (#26233399)

Clearly needed to use a jump machine.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by yupnoop on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:20PM (#26253488)

The Onion has a good video about this phenomenon https://youtu.be/rYaZ57Bn4pQ

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by glaucon on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:05PM (#26231882)

I too would like to hear more about the clients. Also would be really interested to know how you viewed the level of difficultly you were dealing with when people were paying $200 out of their own pocket - did you view it as "tough stuff" ?

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by 908B64B197 on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:31PM (#26230930)

What did they ask you?

Did you get to clone their entire code repository?

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