[scorcher]

This seems to be pitched somewhere horrible between the fun side projects ideas site and contract work. Take out the $50 charge and it suddenly looks great

$50 isn't very much for a days work. Also if I'm doing contract work it would be nice to pitch the price to the project and my skills rather than having some arbitrary fixed price. If I have taken someone's money they will feel entitled and I have to deal with difficult clients vague requirements and suchlike. They will also (presumably) retain the rites for the code produced.

Remove the $50 and it can be just for fun. I can bail on people I don't want to work with and I can retain the code if I want to extend it or show it off on my GitHub.

[mooreds]

Hmmm... I don't think that the $50 is going to the hacker. I think that is just the fee for GetHacker to connect the project owner with a developer.

See the 'get to work' bubble on the homepage: "Once a project owner decides to pick you for their project, we'll connect you both via e-mail. The GetHacker process is over, and you both can take it from there." which implies that once a match has been made, there may be further negotiation, but it won't be facilitated by GetHacker.

[garagemc2]

I don't think this would be for mission critical projects - that stuff will be done by the inhouse team. Just small things that I can get done over the weekend that will make stuff better. E.g. adding responsive design, optimising widget y etc

Also the $50 fee should be conditional upon a developer being successfully picked - at least initially so to boost volume.

[jmonegro]

I somewhat agree. How about not charging the fee until someone actually applies for a project? For now, I'll just refund empty projects.

[ZiadHilal]

I was under the impression that GetHacker receives $50, it's the price a client has to pay in order to connect with a developer. Then you the developer would be able to negotiate costs with the client in private.

[jmonegro]

That's mostly right, yes.

[amikazmi]

I was under the impressions that it cost 50$ to submit a project (the site fee), in addition to the payment for the developer.

[jmonegro]

Correct.

[scorcher]

Ahh. Could be me just being dumb but you might want to clarify that on the site. "you both can take it from there." is a bit ambiguous.