>>pretty+f2
Nitpick, but I think you mean Fiverr rather than Fiver.

There's also:

- PeoplePerHour.co.uk (UK based, not sure of international presence)

- Freelancer.com

- Toptal (but I think they have some sort of approval process that may be a bit arduous)

- Guru.com

- Codeable.io

- Outsourcely.com

- Truelancer.com

- Konker

- Servicescape

- Solidgig (but stronger for design and marketing/SEO roles, I think - considered dropping into the category below)

- Hubstaff Talent

- FlexJobs (but more oriented toward IT and accounting than software development; again, considered dropping into the more specalised category below)

Additional specialist companies I'm aware of that target roles other than developers:

- 99Designs (for, you guessed it, designers and UX) - https://99designs.co.uk/

- Savio (market researchers) - https://savio.pro/

- F-LEX (legal) - https://flex.legal/

Hope you manage to pick up more work soon, but also that you manage to get yours and your clients money back from Upwork.

>>ddtayl+l2
A moderator replied to me a couple months ago that these kinds of posts are usually penalized so HN doesn’t become a support site, but I still see them quite often on here on the front page. I had been commenting that when such posts are made for YC companies, they rarely make it to the front page.

> there has been a glut lately of stories using HN as customer-support-of-last-resort or generic-complaints-about-$company, and we've been hearing an increasing amount of community complaints and pushback about those. HN's standard mod practice is to downweight most such threads

I’m guessing that Upwork is not a YC company.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320816

>>jb1991+l3
Maybe for smaller YC companies, but this story on Stripe got 1624 points, which meant it was probably on the frontpage for multiple days, and inside they say they only brought it up because someone else mentioned having a problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528

>>anonzz+xa
The costs paid are based on the “Streitwert” which in this case would likely be the 10k. There’s tables to look up the lawyer fee and the court fee. A good lawyer may demand more, but you’re still likely to come out ahead if you win.

You’ll likely also be awarded interest and the court-appointed interest rates are nothing to sneeze at (they’re based on the banks base interest rate plus a few percent)

Edit: went and looked it up: Interest is applied from the point when the defendant received the court papers and is currently the base rate plus 5 or 9 percent points.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__291.html

>>jb1991+l3
We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC-related startup is the story: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

>>jb1991+l3
It actually works in the opposite direction: we moderate HN threads less, not more, when YC startups are the story. Lots of past explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

That said, customer-support-of-last-resort threads have been so repetitive lately that we started downweighting them more in general.

I was going to link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320816 and then I saw that it was the reply I posted to you last time! Nothing has changed since then.

>>infofa+f12
Do you mean would we add a dedicated section on HN for 3rd party customer support issues? That's a legit question.

This is when it's particularly helpful to have only one thing we're optimizing for [1] because it means we can replace that question with another: would it make HN more intellectually interesting? The answer is clearly no, I think, because those threads tend to be so repetitive.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

>>nmfish+Q1
As a dev I'm happy with Arc [0] & Codementor [1]. I assume clients have a good experience here as well.

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[0]: https://arc.dev

[1]: https://www.codementor.io

>>BartBo+1q5
That's not how HN works. If it did, then the front page would be filled with sensationalism and rage and the same few hot topics repeated over and over—because those tend to get the most upvotes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...