Need freelancer with Nodebb experience
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@kinderjaje said:
Still like i said i dont need kind of "schooled pro" who charge like he work in google. There are lot of young people who are willing to work for reasonable amount of money and in same time to do what he like and learn more stuff.
If i ever have company, it would not be problem to hire expensive i can say "pro" developer, but right now it's kind of strugling with what i can afford.Yeah, what's a "reasonable" price to you? Throw me a valuation of what you think this project is worth and at what price are you willing to pay. I'm curious...
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trevor Plugin & Theme Dev Anime Lovers GNU/Linuxreplied to scottalanmiller on last edited by trevor
These guys charge so little yet their work is pretty damn good quality with outstanding results and not to mention they do meet deadlines. Sorry to put you out here, but @baris did some work for me recently, it wasn't much but still, its the fact that he charged me standard rate, it took ~1 hour, it was quality work, not the type of work you get from offshore firms (and you know what I mean by offshore so I shouldn't have to explain that in detail), with excellent communication, delivered with updates (shows he cares about his client as the whole team does) and I am happy with the results.
So I'll say this to you @kinderjaje, find me someone who will charge under 95$ an hour with quality work, bug fixes (updates), excellent communication, and delivered in mission critical times. It seems to me like you want something cheaply thrown together with duct tape and paper clips. Obviously money is the issue and if you don't have it and are serious about starting your own business, find a way to get the funds for it - whether it be a kickstarter, donations, sponsors, etc.
All in all, you pay for what you get. I feel that you think you're being ripped off as well just because of what you typed and how you typed it. Well I'll say you're not by far.
Good luck on finding that special dev.
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@a_5mith said:
@scottalanmiller I've always wanted to get into consultancy or project management. Seems like a really exciting area to be involved in. Keep finding myself stuck in development though.
I've spent the bulk of my career consulting. There is a lot of upside to it. Very exciting, career moves fast. I like the lifestyle.
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@scottalanmiller -Would be interested to hear how you got started and how you gain new clients some time. I'm tempted to give it a go.
I've spent long enough as a developer to know what's good and what's not. Who to work with an who not to etc, -
@scottalanmiller Thanks for your thoughts (17 days ago!
oops) on the subject of our pricing. As some have surmised, we're charging the rate we charge because we love what we do, though we could charge more because we're three of a very small set of users who can easily work with the NodeBB code 
We also want to encourage more stuff, whether it be plugins, themes, or updates to the core, and so that's why we're encouraging all of our clients to open source plugins that they sponsor development for
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@a_5mith said:
@scottalanmiller -Would be interested to hear how you got started and how you gain new clients some time. I'm tempted to give it a go.
I've spent long enough as a developer to know what's good and what's not. Who to work with an who not to etc,I really just sort of fell into it long ago. Ended up doing some consulting engagements to pay some bills and ended up liking the constant change. Ended up with an internal IT department that split away from its parent to become a consulting firm - first in software then in IT. Started in the US and have offices in the UK now too. Now I've been doing it for so long, it is hard to imagine much else
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I would not recommend working with this person, he'll just decide that he doesn't need what you're working on anymore. While already working at a very, very low rate, even refuses to pay out a single penny for the work you've already put in it. Do not accept any work from him.
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@Schamper said:
I would not recommend working with this person, he'll just decide that he doesn't need what you're working on anymore. While already working at a very, very low rate, even refuses to pay out a single penny for the work you've already put in it. Do not accept any work from him.
You're entitled to the money you've already quoted, whether they use the work or not. Would be interested to hear what @Jelena thinks about this, as it's her partner who requested the work. I too have helped them both out on their project, and for them to mess around a respected member of the community isn't right. I helped knowing I wasn't going to be paid. But for them to accept your terms and not pay because they don't need what you've done isn't right.
Did you have any form of contractual signage?
This needs addressing, if you've written off the payment, then that's your decision, but we need to do come up with a solution to this so it doesn't happen again. Either payment up front, or at the very minimum a deposit for the work to commence with the full amount due on completion before any work is handed over.
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Sorry to hear about that. Definitely ask for an advance next time, you're a well-respected person here so there should be no reason why someone would distrust you
Was your work something that could be useful for the rest of the community (ex. plugin)? If it's something cool I wouldn't mind giving you a little something out of my own pocket for you to release it
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@julian @psychobunny just 5 more seconds, jeeze.
Took the words out of my ...text, advancement shows trust. -
you type too slow
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@psychobunny said:
I wouldn't mind giving you a little something out of my own pocket for you to release it
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LOL no comment
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@a_5mith @julian @psychobunny
I had an advancement, but since the price itself was very low the advancement wasn't that much either
the current work done on it would be worth more than the final amount.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not that mad about the money, since I considered this more of a "charity" project with a little payment. If I'd be building this for a large, serious party I could probably ask a whole lot more. Because I considered it to be a "charity" project I didn't bother writing up and signing any paper work.The point of this "review" was more to let other developers be cautious when agreeing to do some paid work for him.
To conclude, yes it's something the community can benefit from. It's a rework/extension on the WebRTC plugin. It'd be possible to create (private or public) rooms (from anywhere in NodeBB) which people could join. It'd support most of the experimental WebRTC stuff like Chrome screensharing etc. It'd also be easily extendible with new WebRTC functions.
Like I said, I'm not worried about the money, it's not like I really need it. I'll just put this project on hold and work on other stuff (poll plugin ;)).
