How much does a programmer work for per hour? Who will do this for as little as $5?
How about I copy the code and integrate it with others. And then launch the startup with a cashflow. No copyright issues either. Hmmmmm. Graphic Designers go to university or college for years to attain their skills. Not unlike a Computer Science Degree. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Greenup Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] super quick perl jobs You can request "gigs" - So you can ask for jobs done. The field is in the right hand side column. There are some programming related ones, but of course, very simplistic. Most common ones I've seen are along the lines of "I will fix any problem you have in wordpress for $5" or stuff like that. Also, I need to get a business card finally designed, so I have decided to fire 3 or 4 different people of Fiverr to do it for me, and that way I can either pick the best one, or take the best elements from each, and then rehire the best to put them all together. Total cost $25 for a professional design? Shane ------------------------- http://www.ImmortalOutdoors.com http://www.SportsArbitrageGuide.com/ http://www.TravellersTrade.com http://www.ShaneGreenup.com <http://www.shanegreenup.com/> <http://www.surebetbookies.com/> On 9 December 2011 12:49, simran <[email protected]> wrote: @jason: sorry to hear of your imminent doom, but perhaps i have a partner in crime now :) @shane: absolutely love the logo... and what a superb way to go about things... get something done quick (like your logo) and look at maybe getting a better one done as time progresses... (although in this case, i agree with your business partner... that logo is fantastic) Love the fiverr sites as well... what a fantastic site... and i'm blown away by looking at what people are willing to do for a fiver :) "super quick perl jobs" definitely won't be anything that cheap :) and because it's programming and very technical, and i'll needs to be built to fill a very specific need... that said, i don't anticipate any "super quick" job taking longer than a day... and over time automating some of the processes like packaging for delivery (tarballs with auto generated docs in them), invoicing etc... logo's as you've described are perfect for the 5ver site because the results are completely subjective... with programming, if the result of 2+2 needs to come out as 4, and you print 5... saying "but i like 5 more" ain't gonna cut it... :) on the fiverr site though, i can't see a place where you can say you want something specific done for $5... you can only chose from what people have put up... On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Shane Greenup <[email protected]> wrote: After spending hundred(s) in the past to get logos designed through Elance - taking days at a time, and regular back and forth where I tried to communicate my own poor idea of what it was that I wanted with a designer who didn't understand what I said anyway, I am not sure I will ever go back from my recent experience on Fiverr.com. I paid $5, answered 6 questions, and got a logo. It probably wasn't the best logo ever designed, but it met my specifications, took all stress off me (no trying to explain and no repeated back and forth) and did the job. The time and money saved was huge. I intended to have it redesigned when I launched the next stage of this project, but my partner loves it and won't let me have it redesigned now... Perhaps this approach is not advisable for your next multi-million reputation based business, but it was perfect for this digital product launch. You can see the logo at the top of the page: http://travellerstrade.com/ - total cost $5 USD. - Effort required, less than 5 minutes in total. Fiverr is great for small outsourcable jobs. Shane ------------------------- http://www.ImmortalOutdoors.com http://www.SportsArbitrageGuide.com/ http://www.TravellersTrade.com http://www.ShaneGreenup.com <http://www.shanegreenup.com/> <http://www.surebetbookies.com/> On 9 December 2011 11:43, Jason Brown <[email protected]> wrote: Love it. You'll probably never buy a Ferrari off the back of it, but this kind of "small, quick, cheap" model definitely has its place, and probably some lessons that everyone can learn Also I really miss writing Perl... ah...[wistful look] Sorely tempted to write all of my next project's glue code in perl now. You've doomed me. J On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, simran <[email protected]> wrote: hi all, we often talk about innovating big, changing the world, disruption of the current process/model... however, this morning i had a dream (not quite "martin luther king" style) but an "electric sheep" style... and here's the events of part of my day today: * dreamt - "people were asking me to make changes to their perl scripts" * woke up, in the shower thought of "hey, yeah! often people ask me to make little changes, and perl was something that virtually 'powered' the internet, so there is a lot of it out there, so why not let people make slight changes to what already works for them" - not everyone is ready for a revolution... * created a basic site (my design skills have a lot to be desired for) which reflects the "retro" style... and is very "to the point" (it's a one page site) * registered superQuickPerlJobs.com via dyndns.org (expensive but very reliable, have been using them for over 10 years for domain/dns/mail-forwarding etc) * put the site up on my ec2 server (have had a ubuntu server there for about 4+ years) that i do various experiments on * sent it to a few friends and submitted it to search engines... bob's my uncle i thought... i'm done with this for the day... but from a few FOAF's (who got that link) i got 3 separate requests, two to modify scripts they already have and in one case, a file that needed some computation and parsing - so was busy for the next 2-3 hours again :) i doubt that my rate of getting work will be that great... but the initial feedback undoubtedly was that my FOAF's had found it very hard to get a "small job done" - of course there is odesk etc... but they found the registration process and creating a project, getting bids etc a bit too daunting... they just wanted some parsing or changes to a script they already had... they saw my site, and thought... excellent... specialised in perl, here's an email and a phone number... and sure enough, 5 minutes later, they had described the work to me without having to jump through hoops... to come back to the point, i wonder if there are more opportunities than most anticipate in the "specialised little jobs" ... sites like odesk etc are making more complex things possible, but not keeping "simple things simple" - and i simply borrowed from Larry Wall's philosophy... "keep simple things simple, make complex things possible"... all in all, a profitable day... dare i say, a startup that was profitable in the first day (the day it went from inception to launch :) (can't say that with any ego, because i know there are people out that that replicate things like siri in 8 hours... "iris on android" - case in point!) simran. ps: here's the site if you're interested in looking at my early 1990's HTML skills :) http://superQuickPerlJobs.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. 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