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Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by rajjalan »

mattbarrie wrote: post #37
rajjalan wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why gamification if I am only posting jobs? It might make sense to people who are bidding for projects, but it is just too many unwanted features for posting a project.

Well you can always ignore it? There are something things you might like to earn with the credits, for example the phone number for the head of support, a chat with me over skype with a cup of tea, or a t-shirt? It's not like you have to do anything extra.

Well, we ignore it by using freelancer less now. I just posted thinking you were interested in feedback :)

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by white_devil »

mgiglesias wrote: post #8

I've been the top #1 provider for years and up until vWorker got sold to freelancer. I honestly think that was an awful move, since what made vWorker different from the rest is that it had less number of providers (and clients), but with a much better quality. This, and the fact that being a freelancer for years helped me identify lots of things that were poorly done on sites such as freelancer, made me realize that…

Is Workana only meant for people from the Americas?

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by guru_shastry »

driverdan wrote: post #29

None of them. Their rep is that they're great for hiring low to mid level offshore devs for $10-20/h. If this describes you then great, get on all of them. But if you're charging $100+/h you do yourself a disservice by associating with them and are unlikely to find clients looking to pay that much. It may be an unfair stereotype but it's mostly true. Network instead. Get yourself out there. Go to local events where y…

+1. And get one of these : http://freelancersticker.com

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by tejay »

I really hate being so self-aggrandizing, but at gun.io, this is exactly the problem we're trying to solve.

Open and extremely easy to use, while not sucking in terms of quality. I think we're doing an OK job, but this is more complex than it sounds, and quite obviously, there's always room to do better. (If anyone strongly feels that we just suck, PLEASE email me).

Thanks for allowing us the self-promotional spot, haha - but seriously, if you do want to try us out, just email me and we'll give you a post for free. I am sure our devs are itchin' for (well-compensated) work.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by tehwebguy »

tejay wrote: post #44

I really hate being so self-aggrandizing, but at gun.io, this is exactly the problem we're trying to solve. Open and extremely easy to use, while not sucking in terms of quality. I think we're doing an OK job, but this is more complex than it sounds, and quite obviously, there's always room to do better. (If anyone strongly feels that we just suck, PLEASE email me). Thanks for allowing us the self-promotional spot, h…

Sorry to hijack, but what's with the compensation estimates on gun.io?

It seems like there is some good work on the site but everything seems to be $10k, but there is no basis for the price (is it project pricing, is it per week, did the client estimate it or did you?)

I'm interested in using the site, I guess I just don't know how.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by ssharp »

driverdan wrote: post #29

None of them. Their rep is that they're great for hiring low to mid level offshore devs for $10-20/h. If this describes you then great, get on all of them. But if you're charging $100+/h you do yourself a disservice by associating with them and are unlikely to find clients looking to pay that much. It may be an unfair stereotype but it's mostly true. Network instead. Get yourself out there. Go to local events where y…

You can get higher paying gigs on oDesk if you're willing to do more than carpet bomb categories. Finding good gigs on their takes some time and effort, but it's possible. I did a gig on their that paid a fair amount below what my rate would normally be, but was still above the $10-20 range and I was able to make some good connections from that for more work outside of oDesk.

It came at a time when I was trying to pivot from developer to more of a marketing / marketing-dev role and it also provided me some exposure to tools, problems, and tactics that I wasn't familiar with.

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by Nux »

"the freelancer marketplace sites seem to be dominated by weak PHP developers" - all the "non-weak" PHP devs I know are in well paid positions already and hardly have time to be on freelancer.com or similar, maybe that's the reason you haven't found one. :-)

Re: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

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Post by mrich »

rebelde wrote: post #26
philfrasty wrote: post #16

Wrote a post on this a week ago: „The Ultimate-Guide to Hiring a Freelancer“ ( http://franzisk.us/2013/05/08/the-ultimate-guide-to-hiring-a... ). I usually go for oDesk but you better apply some filters to your search or select candidates by hand to apply to your job. I think your main problem is what Trevor McKendrick called “(you) Pay them to Code, not Think“ ( http://www.trevormckendrick.com/contracting-developers…

"Code, not think". This is my current problem with the freelancers I find. They need an awful lot of guidance, even the good ones. Any recommendations on how to find freelancers who do much more of the thinking? (I plan on trying with some HN freelancers soon.)

Depending on what you want to have developed, they just might need that much guidance, otherwise the end result will be a surprise for you :)

When looking for a freelancer consider people who have done things that you personally like and think would be a good fit for you too. E.g. contact the developer of a website you like or the contributor to an open source project which is well-respected.

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