thekillingtree
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all of these are good topics to discuss. coming from the design world in my previous career, i think there's value in discussing how you paid for designs you didn't like!
Yeah, I get that. I do. In all of my emails I ask for a rough ballpark quote or an estimate of how many hours. I realize how hard it is to do this sometimes, but you have to start somewhere.
I've received 0 quotes and I'm not sure if what I'm asking for is going to cost $1k or $20+k.
As far as a budget goes, I'm not sure really. I understand that you get what you pay for and I also understand what it's like working as a freelancer, so I'm not trying to lowball anyone.
I mean, for a down and dirty idea of what I'm looking for is basically pcpartpicker.com but definitely not a clone and clearly a different industry. I saw this site the other day and it has a lot of things that I have written down for features of what I want.
Anyways, I just feel like I've been talking about this site idea for over a year and have yet to really find anything that's better than what I came up with and figure it's time to just get it out.
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thekillingtree on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @10:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I've been looking for someone to build a site for me and after emailing a dozen people, I've gotten no responses.As a non programmer or a non billionaire, it seems like it is extremely difficult for average joes to try to get their idea built without resorting to the race to the bottom sites. ie: elance. Why does it have to be this difficult? I can't imagine that developers are so busy that...
I'll be sure to keep checking this out. It could end up being pretty good.
A bit off topic: I'd love to see something like this but for motion graphics. I had planned to try to build it but that's clearly not my skillset, ha.
wow, this is very cool. pledged.
I'd be more interested in some replacement backs. Mine got a crack before I had even had the phone for 2 weeks. Gorilla Glass? OK! >_>
I see some code in the 1st artist bio:
http://i.imgur.com/1DtB5.pngOtherwise, very neat site. I don't think there can be too many music exploration sites.
OT: I really dislike sites laid out like that. I accidentally scrolled UP and the page reloaded to a different article. This iPhone article wasn't listed on the left column and I'm not going to hunt for it. TheNextWeb is similar but doesn't do this autoloading nonsense.
Can't wait for that. Currently waiting results from my gfs Itunes xml file.
the only problem i ever had with VM (recently switched to StraightTalk) was the phone selection. phones are getting better but you can't buy a different phone and just use it on VM. at least sticking with sim card phones you have other options.
That's why I was happy to grab my Galaxy Nexus direct from Google for $350 w/o needing to have a contract.
I really like this app. My only suggestion would be to add a "Refresh" button or option in the menu. I minimized the app and went back to it about 20 minutes later and it was bringing me to the wrong article comments and then it gave me a 'network error' (guessing the page expired) when scrolling. Closed the app via recent apps vs minimizing it and restarted it, worked fine.
Aside from that, I truly like it.
this was a seriously brilliant article. i run a music forum that is roughly based on a niche genre of music and we get FLOODED with terrrrrrrrible artists. this is a great thing to make them read.
haha, thanks.
