"Website like Amazon"

Re:"Website like Amazon" by ErikAugust on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:43PM (#5223048)

Elance/oDesk gets ridiculous - but I've heard stories of the Digg prototype being the product of oDesk freelancers and a couple thousand dollars.

Never have found proof/merit to this but I still wonder... anyone know?

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Re:"Website like Amazon" by drewblaisdell on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:45PM (#5223066)

The Digg prototype was the product of a single freelancer and two hundred dollars.

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Re:"Website like Amazon" by dbond on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:50PM (#5223096)

If I remember an episode of diggnation correctly Rose paid $10 per hour, though this is probably wrong. 20 hours is doable for a prototype of the first version of digg.

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Re:"Website like Amazon" by drewblaisdell on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:12PM (#5224016)

I remember this episode too. It looks like he misspoke judging by what I can find online: the eLance forums have people correcting $200-$300 estimates saying that Kevin Rose actually spent more like $2k (as the parent of my comment claimed, sorry).

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Re:"Website like Amazon" by ErikAugust on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:49PM (#5223086)

Damn... any links/references to share?

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Re:"Website like Amazon" by richiepear on Saturday February 16, 2013 @01:06PM (#5232351)

Digg was built on Elance - http://www.centernetworks.com/future-of-web-apps-kevin-rose/

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