What happened in the early days of oDesk? • Hacker News Board

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by jdotjdot89 » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 9:18 AM UTC

kshatrea wrote: post #7

talloaktrees wrote: post #6

Has anyone found work through oDesk and been satisfied with it?

I've been on the platform for about 6 months now, and I've found quite satisfying work and generally cooperative clients.

Same here as well. Same amount of time, also. You just have to be judicious in who you choose as your clients.

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by Joe_Knapp » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 9:39 AM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #6

Has anyone found work through oDesk and been satisfied with it?

I have been there since 2009. I am VERY happy with them.

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by andybak » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 10:32 AM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #6

Has anyone found work through oDesk and been satisfied with it?

I've found contractors through oDesk and been satisfied. And I presume most of them felt the same way.

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by andrewf » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 10:45 AM UTC

Storylane appears to be a hosted blogging platform that doesn't offer RSS feeds. Not sure if they're just desperate to get people joined up, or RSS is actually dead.

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by mithras » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 10:50 AM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #6

Has anyone found work through oDesk and been satisfied with it?

I found a very big client and now work for 3 times my (quite low) starting rate.

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by csomar » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 10:56 AM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #6

Has anyone found work through oDesk and been satisfied with it?

oDesk is huge, it represents the market. There is lots of sh*t, but also lots of good clients and developers.

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 11:19 AM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #6

Has anyone found work through oDesk and been satisfied with it?

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Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by countessa » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 11:27 AM UTC

I guess "People sharing things that matter" is very subjective. A nice story to be sure....but "really matters"?

Is storylane curated or just a free for all?

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by IsaacL » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 11:33 AM UTC

I wanted to here more detail about how they want from a curated marketplace to the free-for-all it is today.

TopTal and Matchist have launched in the last few years, and are aiming to be curated jobs marketplaces (TopTal vets coders, Matchist vets clients). When I first saw them, I thought it was a great model, but this article suggests it's something oDesk tried back in the day and didn't work out. Anyone have any deeper insights?

Re: What happened in the early days of oDesk?

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Post by rubyrescue » Thu, Oct 04, 2012, 11:41 AM UTC

Build a global meritocracy - a person's geographic location should not inhibit the work that they can do.

Great Quote!