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A curated list of various freelancing websites
- danieltillett 10y agoAs an irregular employer of 'talent' on freelancing websites I have come to the opinion that they are all terrible. You find amazing people who can solve incredibly hard problems, but there is no consistent way of doing this. No matter what the job, the pay, the communication, etc it is a total crap shoot if you get a faker who will waste your time or someone competent. I now just hire two or three people at the same time and hope one works out.
- seanwilson 10y ago> As an irregular employer of 'talent' on freelancing websites I have come to the opinion that they are all terrible. You find amazing people who can solve incredibly hard problems, but there is no consistent way of doing this. No matter what the job, the pay, the communication, etc it is a total crap shoot if you get a faker who will waste your time or someone competent. I now just hire two or three people at the same time and hope one works out. Can you not tell from e.g. their portfolio or a short interview?
- danieltillett 10y agoUnfortunately not. I do hire for unusual and difficult projects (i.e. skills I don’t have in house) so this is not unexpected. I have worked with some amazing people over the years so it is not all bad, just very frustrating how hit-and-miss the whole process is. Any freelancing site that can figure out how to solve the ‘faker’ problem will be a massive success.
- inputcoffee 10y agoOne of the tells that I have found: 1. If they ask a lot of detailed questions, they are likely to be good. (What platform? Who is the customer? Anything working at present and so on) 2. If they tell you not to worry, and that all your problems will be solved, run.
- danieltillett 10y agoI agree with you on 2, but 1 is a bit more problematic. The worst offenders seem to be people who are fronts for hidden “teams”. The front person is good, but the backend people are very often terrible.
- inputcoffee 10y agoThat is a good point. That has happened too. And I hate getting on the phone frequently to make sure I am even talking to the same person.
- 0xmohit 10y agoIn praise of Upwork [0]. Related discussion [1]. [0] https://medium.com/@AdShadlabs/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-5c62848bdf46 https://medium.com/@AdShadlabs/why-you-should-never-use-upwo... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282
- nmat 10y agoHere are a few more websites: https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer
- lost_my_pwd 10y agoA much larger list was just posted here yesterday: https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775983
- kintamanimatt 10y agoThese are generally the bottom of the barrel freelancing sites. I'm not sure why they seem to be presented as the crème de la crème.
- Matachines 10y agoBecause people who make "awesome X" and "curated" lists do it for the GitHub stars and just accept any suggestions/PRs without checking if they're good or not.
- dpflan 10y agoDo you have any better recommendations?
- kintamanimatt 10y agoThere's many of them. These are some I've starred on GitHub: [-1] https://github.com/kaizensoze/remote-freelance-jobs https://github.com/kaizensoze/remote-freelance-jobs [0] https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer [1] https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork [2] https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
- dpflan 10y agoThanks. There is also this recent HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12795387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12795387