Show HN: Codacy, delegate your programming tasks.

Suggestions:<p>- Add some examples of reasonable programming tasks and prices. I have no idea of what size tasks I should give Codacy and how much I should expect to pay for them.<p>- Let users do other users' tasks and take a percentage cut off the transaction. I'd enjoy spending an evening working through little problems and getting paid for it.

It's too bad many of the toughest problems in companies are more typically on the integration level, which requires domain knowledge and context of the project itself. To solve these problems don't require brains, but time and communication.<p>I feel this service is targeted toward people who have simple one-off "puzzle" problems ie. write me a quick recommendation algorithm for a data structure of this format.<p>I'd be interested in seeing some case studies to see what exactly are the types of problems you are solving. "Small programming task" is a bit too vague for me.

Nice idea. I realize at this point you're just trying to feel the waters and measure demand. Good for you. But even for a first iteration landing page, I think you need to demonstrate more awareness of how hard it is to outsource software development (even in small morsels).<p>Submit &#62; payment &#62; success just doesn't convince me, on the contrary, it makes me wonder if you ever delegated software development tasks to others. Not counting issues such as domain knowledge and integration, that were already mentioned by others, communication is extremelly tricky. For small-sized jobs, producing a full specification of both funcional and non-funcional requirements and going through a few cycles of submit-review-resubmit can take more time than required to just do the job myself.<p>With all those caveats, I would have use for services like these as well and I hope you can do a good job of communicating why someone would go to Codacy instead of Odesk, Freelancer.com or RentACoder.

Until I came to visit the comments, I was convinced this could be a hoax/joke site.<p>"Wish you could spawn a human thread to help you? If you have a task, small enough to delegate to someone, then this is it!" (Spawning humans!)<p>"Are you currently overworked, exhausted and have too much on your plate?" (Don't most people have too much on their plate?)<p>The site and its copy are vague and universal, which makes it funny, especially the 'Submit Problem' screen.<p>Only when I looked at the About Us page did I start to think this could be real.<p>However you also say "We find sites like stackoverflow very useful, but what if there was a middle term between them and small consultancy firms?"<p>You are basically trying to become a small consultancy firm it seems. Unless you let people sign-up and handle tasks themselves, like a crowdspring/99designs meets mechanical turk for programming.

I think that even though you're requiring payment, you need to show some free examples of code that you have written. You have to make people think "wow...that's really well-written code" before they'll hand you just anything to work on.<p>One of the most important things to me when delegating a task to a programmer is trust. I wouldn't ask just anyone to solve just any problem, so you should demonstrate to potential customers the kinds of things that they can ask of you.

I hope I don't come off rude, but I don't see anything here that I couldn't get on oDesk. Maybe less. On oDesk, I can pick a language. Here, you don't mention what your skills are. So I could send you 3 problems, one in Lua, one in ColdFusion, and the third a distributed map reduce job for MongoDB, and assume you do them all?<p>Given the grammar and the names on the About Us, I assume I'm paying cheap off-shore rates? What I'm seeing here is a group of folks who want to tackle outsourced work, but aren't big enough or experienced enough to take on full projects. The attempt is to brand it in such a way to capture some of the startup dollars out there. However in reality, it's just the same kind of freelancing that's been going on for 15 years.

Brilliant idea. I think this is pretty awesome.<p>However, from my (brief) usage of the landing page, I don't quite understand who will be doing the delegated work. Will it be some intern, or will it be your team? Who is your team? More specifically, what are there skills and what guarantees do I have?<p>Also - I can see potential problems with undergrad students submitting assignments to be done. Any idea how to regulate that kind of stuff and ensure you aren't just helping someone do something that they aren't allowed to delegate (or is this not your problem?).<p>I'm sure the details will be clearer with time, and for simple tasks this could work quite well.

Here's an idea. Consider accepting GitHub issues. If it's a private repo, I can add Codacy as a collaborator. Then I'll create an issue, maybe write a few specs to define my acceptance criteria, and pass it over to you.

In my experience, communication is the lion's share of the work in a programming project. Unless the task is super self contained, I can't see this being useful. I suppose I could say, "I need a jquery plugin to do this" or I need a thingy to read this obscure file format and turn it into x y or z. But aside from examples like that, I think this might not meet the cost/benefit requirements of most potential customers. That said, I already can think of a self contained task I want to ask you guys about.

I just submitted something that I need doing - looking forward to seeing what you guys are capable of doing.<p>EDIT: One feature I would like to see is for you to have an automatic email confirmation of a submission, including the original submission body itself as a record of what was requested.

great idea! two suggestions though: 1. fix the english grammatical mistakes (sorry, I realize you're programmers but it doesn't look or sound professional) and 2. drop bootstrap or modify/lessjs it so that it doesn't look like a website someone threw together in 10 minutes.

I'm having a hard time imagining the sorts of tasks I could hand-off to you. To all the people offering encouragement here, can any of you comment on something specific you could see yourself using this for?<p>I suppose I can think of things like... suppose I had a DB schema, you can create the SQL and the Django models for me. But I'm really wracking myself to think-up better examples. I mean, I don't start new django projects very often. And even then, it's rare I work out an entire DB schema on paper first. Usually the process of creating the Django models teases-out the final design decisions.

Cool idea! I could see myself using it. However, I'm not sure how scalable this business is, unless you're planning to crowdsource this to some per-verified team of experts

I really like this idea. I will be keeping it in mind over the next few weeks. Please add more information (what languages? what size problem? what price?)

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