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How we made a $25,000 website for $3,000

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Re: How we made a $25,000 website for $3,000

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For the same reason you've been replying in this thread: it concerns you. Similarly, if you don't like peoples' comments here, why refer to them or reply to them at all? Just ignore them. See how anti-social your line of logic is?

Last post on this and I'm finished. Read the comments I was originally referring to. They are not of the "This threatens my way of life and my stream of income, and I'm concerned about it" variety. I would have no problem with that. Rather, they uniformly denounce the whole practice as immoral and wrong. They disguise their own self-interest as a moral argument. Why? Because admitting that's its their own asses they…

I don't think crowdsourcing is allowing many people to pursue happiness and wealth.

Well .. unless you include the company operating the service :)

Re: How we made a $25,000 website for $3,000

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Spec work controversy aside, they make a statement at the end I find ironic: The one big drawback is that it is a time-consuming endeavor, and to manage a good contest takes a decent amount of planning and focus. I've worked through redesigns with many clients, and the time they spent on running this contest is on the low end. Plus, they did more work than they really needed to by emailing contributors and coding it…

How could it ever be? In order to run a really top-notch contest, they would have to spend a lot of time and effort on each part of it, including the design. And how will they find somebody to design their contest for them?
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