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Re:Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3... by kondro on Monday April 28, 2014 @11:57PM (#7664855)
LOL, $50/hour.

The types of developers you want creating your prototypes are those that can justify charging $200+ per hour because they have past business/user experience to truly understand what you want to achieve from your project as opposed to what you've specified.

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Re:Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3... by hrjet on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @01:56AM (#7665223)
In developing countries, $50/hour is considered very lucrative. Thus the hourly rate is not a good indicator of developer quality.
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Re:Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3... by kondro on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @04:08AM (#7665643)
I assure you, it very much is.
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Re:Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3... by lugg on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @06:02PM (#7670216)
The number 50 was for illustrative purposes. Not sure why that's so funny. Ok 100/hour and 35 hours look at that. If you can get the projects done in a tenth the time suddenly you're getting a lot more than that figure.

Also as another has pointed out, justifying 200/hour and beating the competition is very difficult in a world wide market. Those in sv may be able to push that high but I can assure you there is many many developers with the same skill set living in much cheaper economic climates where 50/hour is considered much higher than 200/hour is in sv.

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