Congrats on the launch!! Love the concept and excited to try it at Clearbit.

Thank you, we're huge Clearbit fans since like 2015, excited to see Clearbit Journeys in the wild.

Thanks for the mention Rafael! Would be happy to see if we can help grinich. Just shot you an email if you'd like to run a data test.

Quoting Harlow here:

Great question! When we don't have an email address (or company domain) in cache we use our robust worker platform to doing live lookups. We leverage Sidekiq Pro to process millions of Lookup Jobs per day. We can typically finish a Person Lookup in under 3 seconds by leveraging the massive concurrency that Sidekiq affords us.

Great answer! Thank you for your response. I am a fanboy of Sidekiq and I enjoy its speed and ease of use. What are some places you guys look for personal info. Are they just APIs or do you do some social network scraping? Thanks.

Interesting. Is this in someway a reboot of tinyproj? Or totally unconnected?

I'm actually completely unfamiliar with the project...

Thanks for the detailed response Patrick,

I see your point. We're finding that we want to focus in on real validated feedback from past clients and simple case studies of the work.

We're still thinking through the actual metrics that make sense to profile, and I can definitely see that Github scores might not be very important.

I'd love to go deeper in how we can create a framework for case studies if you're free to connect offline. matt@theworkmob.com

I hope this conversation can continue online. There's a lot to be learned from it.

Yes and no. We're building a place for freelance developers to share, showcase, and find new freelance gigs. We're not attempting to be a middle man in the actual transaction but to improve the process of finding the right freelancer for your specific job.

We agree that freelancer matchmaking sites are generally not in the best interests of freelancers.

We've taken the position of freelancer discovery over matchmaking. Our goal is to give freelancers a great way to be discovered by filtered clients, based on specific skills and experience qualifications.

We want make it possible for freelancers and clients to find each other more efficiently, and we're not going to be involved with the actual project or contract.

For your example, we might serve as the place where the client found the 3 consultants that were invited to pitch with a cover letter, resume, and case studies.

The philosophical problem with all freelancer sites is that they position consultants as substitutable offerings that can be selected off a shelf. There are some fields (graphic design, for instance) where this is apparently not too damaging. But I think it's (in practice) very bad positioning for software consultants, and, not coincidentally, an unhelpful mental model for buyers to adopt.

The PG review is not real! This is a demo of what we think an awesome freelancer portfolio should look like. Sorry if that was at all misleading.

I hear you on the "commoditization" of freelance software work, and we're actually trying to fight that. We're trying to build the freelancer site that actually built for the freelancer, and gives them a way to be found by the types of clients they're looking for. VS. what exists today where freelancers bid against each other, have to deal with shitty job descriptions, and less than awesome clients.

Would love to talk more offline if you're open to it. matt@theworkmob.com

What would you like to see specifically about a developers past work? Code? A walkthrough of what was built? What would be most useful?

A walk through of what was built would be helpful to better understand what the project looked like (or how it functioned) before the developer came on board and what the project looked like/functioned after.

Also, knowing how a developer works best would be useful. For example, does the developer like to check in regularly or does he/she prefer a hands off experience.