[ntalbott]

Love this: like 99designs for code. Bet you'll get a lot of pushback on this "devaluing coding" just like 99designs has for design, which just means you're on the right track. Of course it doesn't; it just commoditizes basic coding skills, and more importantly makes the accessible to a wider set of people.

I especially liked the example that was scraping data off a bunch of pages and returning a spreadsheet/csv of the results; that's a great example of something a smart business person that thinks algorithmically can identify, but can't/won't implement themselves. I actually wonder if it would work well to target this service specifically at algorithmically minded business folks.

Hope this works well for you - great idea, and looks well executed so far.

[wingerlang]

This doesn't seem like 99designs does it? As far as I understand, 99designs pins 100s of designers against each others making many logos of which to choose from, which means that most of them works for free.

This website is one team making what the client asks for, there's no competition.

Unless that's what's happening behind the scenes.

[ForHackernews]

> Unless that's what's happening behind the scenes.

I think something like that is what's happening behind the scenes. Maybe not the competition/spec work aspect, but certainly they're going to be outsourcing to loads of the cheapest workers they can find.