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Three days may be stretching it. Even having a template for a website without a back-end made a while back, I ended up sending over 70 emails discussing details. What will you do if you produce something that the customer finds not quite right?

I love the idea, but just a warning on the time frames.

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You really think it's a good idea for him to do a 99designs-style Rails prototyping service? "Working version of screenshot for under $3000"?

I might not use it, but I'm sure someone would... especially all those people who can't find technical cofounders, and want to start something really badly. I haven't really thought that hard about market viability, so you may be right.

There are people that will use the service, but his pricing has ensured that those people will tend to be among the most pathological customers.

$1,000 for website with back-end code isn't that bad is it? If I somehow had assurance of the quality, didn't have a technical friend in mind, and couldn't do it myself, I'd probably heavily consider it as a solution. I say this because I do have a project in mind (but taken care of).

I feel this spiraling back into the technical co-founder discussion.

It's far too cheap.

I would also suggest that a set time frame of 3 days will not fit every project and could be a cause for pain when you can not deliver said project on time. You might want to have some sort of range of times/prices depending on how hard/big the scope of the project will be.

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