all of these are good topics to discuss. coming from the design world in my previous career, i think there's value in discussing how you paid for designs you didn't like!

Yeah, I get that. I do. In all of my emails I ask for a rough ballpark quote or an estimate of how many hours. I realize how hard it is to do this sometimes, but you have to start somewhere.

Wild speculation: if you're at the "ballpark" stage, you probably have a very vague feature list / overall plan... I suspect if you tighten up the description and scope you'll have more luck (although given how many offers for quotes you just got, perhaps a better method is to just post on YC ;)

I've received 0 quotes and I'm not sure if what I'm asking for is going to cost $1k or $20+k.

As far as a budget goes, I'm not sure really. I understand that you get what you pay for and I also understand what it's like working as a freelancer, so I'm not trying to lowball anyone.

I mean, for a down and dirty idea of what I'm looking for is basically pcpartpicker.com but definitely not a clone and clearly a different industry. I saw this site the other day and it has a lot of things that I have written down for features of what I want.

Anyways, I just feel like I've been talking about this site idea for over a year and have yet to really find anything that's better than what I came up with and figure it's time to just get it out.

You can bounce it off me as well - barry.melton@gmail.com.

I'll mail you back my take on the offer -- if it's turning someone off to responding to you, I'll respond as to why. If it looks perfectly reasonable, I'll let you know that as well.

I will also respond with a quote as to what I think it should cost, in terms of hours and dollars.

shoot me an email anthony@coderindustries.com; we can go over a features list, and I'll be happy to send you a quote, at the least help out determining why you can't get any interest from other freelancers.

I'll be sure to keep checking this out. It could end up being pretty good.

A bit off topic: I'd love to see something like this but for motion graphics. I had planned to try to build it but that's clearly not my skillset, ha.

wow, this is very cool. pledged.

Thank you!

I'd be more interested in some replacement backs. Mine got a crack before I had even had the phone for 2 weeks. Gorilla Glass? OK! >_>

I see some code in the 1st artist bio: http://i.imgur.com/1DtB5.png

Otherwise, very neat site. I don't think there can be too many music exploration sites.

OT: I really dislike sites laid out like that. I accidentally scrolled UP and the page reloaded to a different article. This iPhone article wasn't listed on the left column and I'm not going to hunt for it. TheNextWeb is similar but doesn't do this autoloading nonsense.

And why do they feel they need to take up such a significant part of my screen real estate? Why can I not disable that annoying toolbar at the top that pops in and out depending on if you're scrolling?

Can't wait for that. Currently waiting results from my gfs Itunes xml file.

the only problem i ever had with VM (recently switched to StraightTalk) was the phone selection. phones are getting better but you can't buy a different phone and just use it on VM. at least sticking with sim card phones you have other options.

This is not really a problem. Just pay a few bucks to someone off of Craigs List (or spend a little time learning to do it yourself) to clone one of their cheaper phones to one you buy (get one with a bad ESN cause they are cheaper) off of eBay or CL. It is really pretty easy.