Just curious, does anyone use sites like odesk / elance etc to find well paying contracts? They seem to be mostly full of asian contracting teams bidding bottom dollar on most projects.
well paying, no.
Enough to put gas in the car... sometimes.
Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#32My co-founder (sabalaba) and I have been working on Hackerlist (http://hackerlist.net) - a selective network of great freelance engineers.
This seems like something many of you have been looking for as there are a shocking number of "freelance" posts (from both clients and programmers) on HN each month -- HN ids: 4596379, 4463692, 4323612, 4214767, 4184757, 4053078, 3914001 3783658, 2539892, etc.
We admit, at this stage Hackerlist is an experiment. We're only asking for your time and patience -- we'll help you land contracts with top companies, handle the logistics, and you'll keep 100% of your earnings. No catch. We'll handle the vetting process, source contracts, and continuously work one-on-one with you to improve our tech until it serves your needs. Unfortunately, to preserve high quality, we're unable to accept more than 32 candidates and 6 of these spots are already filled.
If you'd like to be considered for Hackerlist, email me at michael.karpeles@gmail.com or submit your github username on http://hackerlist.net
Our long-term vision is to create a realtime system (think the intersection of mechanical turk, stackoverflow, oDesk) where trusted freelance engineers can immediately clone a git repo, start hacking on a technical problem, and upon completion, get paid what they're worth.
P.S. Suggestions and feedback are appreciated -- we don't want to build something you don't need.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#33see this answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731232