Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes
I look at it like this: There are 4 directions that a software project can be constrained: Time, price, scope, and quality.<p>1. Elance or ODesk can offer you fixed time, price, and scope, but highly erratic quality.<p>2. An expensive contracting agency can offer you fixed time, scope, and quality, but with high costs.<p>3. This site promises fixed cost, and quality, but makes no promises on scope or completion timeline.<p>All that's left is for someone to make a site that has fixed timing, like "Software Prototypes in One Week". I'll wait for that one to hit the front page of HN. As a developer I'd actually prefer that because I know when it's going to be over.