Ask HN: What would it take for you to buy this service?

2 points by maxbond 6y ago ↗ HN

Hi,

I posted this to the Freelancer thread, and got a lot of clicks but no inquiries.

https://www.fiverr.com/users/agavesam/manage_gigs/write-comprehensive-unit-tests-for-your-python-code/edit

I was wondering if this wasn't a service anyone would purchase or if I could emend my listing to make it more salable.

Thanks, Max

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mtmail 6y ago ↗

URL tells me to login, even after removing the '/edit' part.

maxbond 6y ago ↗

Oops! My apologies.

https://www.fiverr.com/share/zWzZbR

diminoten 6y ago ↗

Lots of clicks but no inquiries might mean the hook is solid but the actual pitch is lacking.

Could you post the pitch here, so we don't have to log into fiverr to see it?

mtmail 6y ago ↗

The short link from the freelancer thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431914) seems to work https://www.fiverr.com/share/vv8rRN

al2o3cr 6y ago ↗

I don't follow the use case for this - if the team is "too busy to write tests" they're going to be too busy to update tests when the software changes.

maxbond 6y ago ↗

Well, hiring me again would be nice, but what I was imagining was that a team was way behind on maintaining their tests & I could get them caught up. After that it'd be easier to keep tests up to date & perhaps they'd find use of me again.