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the-plain-contract
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jackmorgan / the-plain-contract

the-plain-contract

The Plain Contract is a crowsourced, open source freelance contract template, written in plain language.

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
312GitHub stars
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What it is

The Plain Contract is a crowsourced, open source freelance contract template, written in plain language.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-01-15 15:48:16 UTC to 2021-11-29 00:30:39 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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my expected formatting failed above, should of been more like: 1 contracts. 2. billing software (or/and time tracking?). 3. legal advice cheaper I did some algolia-foo for about 20 minutes and lots of non-relevant to sort through.. however I found a couple of old posts (2009 and 2013) that have the linked-contracts just 404s now. even this more recent one that has a good discussion / things to consider with contracts in the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911317 ) has the domain in the main is blocked by my AV soft.. however the github with it is still surf-able ( https://github.com/jackmorgan/the-plain-contract/ ) Would love new discussions on these things. I vaguely recall some techcrunch? writeups long ago about some get quick legal advice app / call for like $29 per call or hour or something? Is there anything like th
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