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This service looks really well thought out.

I am currently looking for a service exactly like this however, rather than a pay by week service, I'd really like to pay per task or to be able to buy blocks of time, maybe 10 hours at a time.

I realise that may mean I am not your target market, but I feel that getting to the bottom of my current to do list may only take 10 hours of someones time. So I don't really want to sign up to a pay weekly type service and have to remember to cancel.

Also - I would not want to have to split my tasks into ones to sort out this week and ones for next week. I'd like to get them all done at once.




We used to have an "hourly" model, and may bring it back. Would this be of interest to you?

The reason we do a weekly model is that it lets us plan capacity.


Personally, I would prefer it, but I realise it may be confusing to your customers to have two totally different pricing methods.

How did the hourly model perform when you used it before?


It was reasonably popular, but difficult to predict usage. You can still see it there - it's not labeled as such, but it's the "Starter" plan -- this will bill you per hour, with a minimum of one per week.


I'd be interested in hiring for hourly work, but I'm not sure how much work I need to send out per week. I suspect others are like me. It would be nice if we could pay a monthly maintenance fee and then just pay $10/hr, or whatever. It would be even better if we could just pay $15/hr during spike times.




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