A few questions / comments (as a prospective client):
1. Do you have any thoughts or guidelines as to project size? Any lower or upper limits? (I sometimes have projects as small as a few hours' work for someone with the right background -- say, integrating with a particular tool or API. I would love a way to find skilled freelancers for this type of task. AnyFu sounds like it might be aiming at this, but they've been stuck in "we'll notify you as soon as [we're] ready" for a while now.
2. How is the project price determined? Direct negotiation between client and contractor? Do you get involved (at least to make suggestions)? Is price determined before or after the matchup is made?
3. It would be nice to have a general notion of what sorts of expertise your contractors have (collectively). For instance, are you recruiting designers? Frontend developers? Backend developers? What technologies are best represented? Before writing up a project proposal, it would be nice to have an idea of whether I have some chance of finding a good match.
1. Small tasks are much easier to handle in that context. But that doesn't exclude bigger projects - we'll just make sure it is split into smaller tasks (the usual sprint/stories methodology of SCRUM usually helps a lot here)
2. We start by asking both parties what is their price/budget. This allows us to do a first sanity check on both sides, and then we use that information, along with the project description, to see who could agree on a price. We discuss a potential match with both parties - if both agree to discuss, they get to discuss the final price together.
3. True, it would certainly be useful. We have a good core set of skill currently in web development, games, Python/PHP/Node/JS - but that doesn't take into account the many candidatures from HN exposure today. We haven't had time to process them properly yet, but the set of expertise is much larger already. I'd say that, unless your project is extremely specific, we can probably find a matching skill set for you.
1. Do you have any thoughts or guidelines as to project size? Any lower or upper limits? (I sometimes have projects as small as a few hours' work for someone with the right background -- say, integrating with a particular tool or API. I would love a way to find skilled freelancers for this type of task. AnyFu sounds like it might be aiming at this, but they've been stuck in "we'll notify you as soon as [we're] ready" for a while now.
2. How is the project price determined? Direct negotiation between client and contractor? Do you get involved (at least to make suggestions)? Is price determined before or after the matchup is made?
3. It would be nice to have a general notion of what sorts of expertise your contractors have (collectively). For instance, are you recruiting designers? Frontend developers? Backend developers? What technologies are best represented? Before writing up a project proposal, it would be nice to have an idea of whether I have some chance of finding a good match.