Another thing I did with LLM which I found very useful, is to give the LLM an existing song lyrics and ask him to do a similar one with different subject I give him
I've started at 2018, mainly used a similar site to upwork but local to my country so less competition and most of the time when you find a client from there, they refer you or use you again
Of course adding there to your profile skills, portfolio etc, sending your CV and website can really help
Once you have a website like this or a few, always keep hunting for work.
You can fail to get one for 2 weeks but then find one that will last you few months of work
Normally as a "freelancer" you get make much more money with the same time of work, if you work fast try to always get a fixed price project and finish it ASAP.
If not you can use a client or a few hourly and over the time to look for those fixed price
If you new to this, you gonna make a lot of mistakes estimating costs on those fixed price projects, we all do. We learn over time :)
..."In the updated fee structure Unity is supposedly to soon announce, download counts would not be counted retroactively (i.e. all games would start from zero when the policy is implemented) and fees would be limited to 4% of a game’s revenue once it reaches $1M"
Still think the trust is gone, developers will just move slower to another engine
Sorry I missed your comment earlier, I was focused on the discussion of regulations below and I take a while to reply. Yes two months is generally too long a time frame for buyer's remorse type regulations some countries have.
However it sounds like you've other services with them you have already paid for, and thus it's less likely a company would pursue an individual for monies owed but rather discontinue all services they have. Their path of convoluted or hidden / unclear fees is certainly an unwelcome surprise.
Never really used their services they are welcome to just delete/ban my account. I would definitely won't do any business with them if this is who they are.
Well from that, this to me sounds like the above was the only service which they have asked to be paid for, like moving a free tier where you've made an account to a paid service.
Usually services are provided only after the customer has paid. Those that don't are either incredibly generous and trusting ... or absolutely precious. In regard to precious, in my rule book for all business and personal purchases, they are deserving a close and critical eye with an expectation of a poor and bad outcome to surface, and being prepared with a contingency plan having already shopped around without being in a panic, should the moment arise. I think it's fair to say some smaller and newer companies providing services have tight spots as well, and generally resolve as the company grows.
I agree with everything you say, wasn't really a contract just "an offer" https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.ido.land/Untitled-1.jpg
Especially agree regarding the assholes part, which is one of the reasons I post it. I was really surprised they are insist like this.
I live in Israel, so it makes their case more expensive. I'll really be surprised if they will go into legal actions. Again, I was under the impressions is not something I need to pay for, what the judge could do if he will see no credits were used. That would be pretty stupid if even he is will require me to pay for it.
Anyways, there legal expenses gonna exceed by far from that $1,000. And no sane judge will let me pay this "legal expenses" if they are suing for $1,000.
Either way, we have many laws regarding those stuff in Israel as well they need to take part of. Since I'm a business registered in Israel
I'm BTW no an entity, but rather individual. Just really a small guy with registered company to be able to create invoices, freelancer actually.
I contacted them regarding personal project I wanted to develop, I also contacted their support since they have a missing private endpoint I was needed to GCP. From there they pushed for that credits discount (at that time for me it was "free credits" which turns out to be false)
I agree with that they sold me a product, they rushed me to sign because they wanted to setup me up the account. But defiantly my bad of not seeing it.
Regarding the product they were selling, is not that I bought something on amazon never used it and asked for refund.
I did a mistake I would definitely won't do again. But this "product" is like you say, a discount. Why they try so hard to squeeze this money out of me, is it really a lot for me right now. And I really not gonna use their services anytime soon..
If you live in Israel then they will need to pursue collections and legal actions in your country. Them securing $1,000 judgment against you in California means absolutely nothing. And this pushes the entire product into a different realm. There's export agreements that need to be considered the enforceability of their master service agreement comes into question. All of it is up in the air if you are a citizen of a different country. Even inside the United States a lot of things can come into question if you're a citizen of a different state.
Reading over their master service agreement your best bet for a, no cost to you, resolution is their dispute policy for billing. Which is within 60 days of receipt of an invoice you notified them in writing and that you are disputing it. In this case you're dispute was that you were told this was free therefore you're disputing the entire amount.
This is when billing gets in volved and what you push for is to get someone in senior leadership and potentially legal involved. For a $1,000 bill and you being in another country they should just make this all. Although it will take some haggling. At least that's my guess.
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