Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs

Re:Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs by whather on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @10:50PM (#3020536)

The feedback we've been getting from employers is that they're much more comfortable paying on an hourly basis. They're worried about a team abandoning a project half way through, etc.

We're exploring different ways to charge for projects as we move forward.

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Re:Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs by nickzoic on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @06:26AM (#3021419)

+1 to the previous comment: time is an illusion, billable hours doubly so.

You know what would be great? A trusted-third-party for judging whether a project meets its requirement milestones, and payments escrow to make sure that the money is actually there when it does ...

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Re:Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs by aik on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @11:27PM (#3020617)

That's interesting. Isn't one of your primary benefits (from the employer point of view) the fact that you are a premium supplier of great talent? "Great talent" including "reliable"? If not, what separates you from any other freelancer website?

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Re:Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs by whather on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @11:39PM (#3020653)

Yes, and that's the primary reason we chose startups as a source of talent. They're a highly skilled, self-sufficient "swat team" that already have proven team fit.

Nonetheless, renting a startup or (team for that matter) is still a new concept for employers and they are used to paying an hourly rate for consulting gigs. If we start to see way more demand for flat-rate project from startups, we'll move in that direction.

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