Where the numbers come from today
Mindhyv is a young marketplace, and we won’t pretend otherwise. The price ranges in our cost guides are currently compiled from public sources: government labor statistics, published industry surveys, and publicly listed rates from professionals across the market. Every cost guide lists its sources at the bottom of the page.
We do this instead of the common alternative — inventing confident-sounding numbers — because a cost guide you can’t audit is an ad.
What changes as we grow
As real projects flow through Mindhyv, our guides will incorporate anonymized, aggregated platform data: what projects in each category actually cost, not what people say they cost. When a guide’s figures switch from market research to platform data, the guide will say so explicitly, including the sample size.
No individual seller’s pricing is ever published or derivable from what we publish. Aggregates only, with minimum sample thresholds.
The rules, either way
- Every figure has a source — public citation now, sample size later.
- Ranges over false precision. “$400–$2,500” honestly beats “$1,437” dishonestly.
- Updates are dated. Every guide shows when its numbers were last reviewed.
- Corrections are public. When we get something wrong, the fix is noted on the page, not silently swapped in.