Rabbits
Web and SaaS
freelance programming marketplace
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
7 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 18 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.
Idea: 5 for, 8 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea, looks well executed so far
From 1 comment
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…
ntalbott on HN
Useful for scraping and scripting tasks
From 2 comments
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…
ntalbott on HNI would love a way to join the "supply side" of this company aka pickup some quick scraping/scripting tasks for cash.
corbinpage on HN
Objections
Delivery deadlines may not be met and quick turnaround may hurt quality
From 1 comment
"You should have it by 7:05 pm PST." -- From one of the examples. I have uneasy feelings about this. I know that you're targeting grunt-jobs and it's easily estimateable. But I…
dyadic on HN
Rabbit name conflicts with TaskRabbit
From 1 comment
Calling a task-oriented service 'Rabbit' seems worrying. Either you're unaware of the existence of TaskRabbit, in which case you haven't done basic market research and don't…
jameshart on HN
Anonymous WHOIS and missing business contact info look unprofessional
From 2 comments
The idea is good but they need to have both an "about" page, contact info, and remove the privacy on their whois. [1] If they aren't willing to disclose who they are I would have…
larrys on HNI don't quite get the thinking behind not revealing that information for a commercial service. It's really not ok, regardless of if it's an mvp product, there are still minimum…
adventured on HN
Sending internal data to outside parties is a security risk
From 2 comments
That still leaves the problem of sending internal data to outside parties. The accountants may be fine with the programming help, IT certainly shouldn't be.
kej on HN"Corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams" will quickly lose their jobs if they start handing out their precious in-house data to some random people on…
huhtenberg on HN
Some jobs are not plausible use cases such as the express.js tutorial
From 1 comment
The examples don't seem very plausible (except perhaps the python one). In the case of website scraping, why not just pay Mechanical Turk? You apparently just need the data so…
jordanb on HN
Requests
Let freelancers join the supply side
From 2 comments
I would love a way to join the "supply side" of this company aka pickup some quick scraping/scripting tasks for cash.
corbinpage on HNAgreed. This sounds like a fun thing to do when you have some spare time or are bored.
thethinker1032 on HN
Show more business-oriented examples such as Excel work
From 1 comment
Once corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams realize that the definition of "simple, grunt-like programming task" could probably include Excel munging…
otoburb on HN
Questions
What are the actual prices for the examples
From 1 comment
Would be interested to see the actual prices for the examples
paolomaffei on HN
How does the work get done, by AI, humans or outsourcing
From 1 comment
How does it work? Do you use AI techniques in combination with US based human knowledge workers/students? Or do you outsource the task to Mechanical Turk / Asia based outsourcing…
frik on HN
Alternatives named
TaskRabbit
From 1 comment
Calling a task-oriented service 'Rabbit' seems worrying. Either you're unaware of the existence of TaskRabbit, in which case you haven't done basic market research and don't…
jameshart on HN
Freelancer.com
From 1 comment
I once tried "freelancer.com" on a simple job - I had a small Python program which would standardize WHOIS data from a domain registrar, with modules for about two registrars. I…
Animats on HN
Toptal
From 1 comment
Have you looked into Toptal.com ? My experiences with them have been great on all these metrics. I've worked with them as a dev and referred a few happy friends. Email's in my…
rattray on HN
Mechanical Turk
From 1 comment
The examples don't seem very plausible (except perhaps the python one). In the case of website scraping, why not just pay Mechanical Turk? You apparently just need the data so…
jordanb on HN