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What is the difference between students and real people? I don't see why this website cannot be for all programmers, or why students cannot use other freelancing sites.

If there is a problem of proper filtering of talents and budgets, adding such an arbitrary filtering criteria as `isStudent` is not going to solve anything.

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I don't necessarily think there is a difference between students and programmers in general. What I'd like to accomplish is a more curated freelancing site, where qualified programmers don't necessarily have to compete with people offering services at a fraction of the cost. In addition a place where students can learn a bit about freelancing, so if a freelancer has a question on how to handle a certain type of client or how should something be done, we'd like to provide the resources to help the freelancer. Kind of a mix between an agency and just a freelancing site would be my goal as of now.

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