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Yes. I have had nothing but problems with UpWork. The overall quality is just low from the jobs posted, to many of the freelancers on there and even the site it

• mikekchar 10y ago
  I suppose the OP wants to provide such a service and is testing the waters with this question. However, I'm curious since I've never interacted with that kind of site before. It seems to me that the problems you mentioned have no obvious solution. I think in order for the idea to have potential, you're going to have to address all of those things. Do you have any ideas? For example, how would you improve the quality of the jobs posted? Even when I interact with users in my company to give me some direction on features they want, they usually don't understand the issues well enough to tell me. And because they don't understand the issues, they always assume it is trivially easy to do. So there is almost certain to be a mismatch between what's being asked for, what's being delivered, and what the price should be. As for the freelancers, the only way I can think of to improve the quality is to pay them more. For example, I'm a remote contractor and I think it might be fun to do some work on the side. However, I'm not going to touch this with a 10 foot pole. As I said before, I'm almost guaranteed to have an unhappy customer who wants to pay me a tenth of what it really costs to build it. The only people who will do it are people who are desperate, or people who don't know any better. Neither are likely to be coming from a large pool of highly skilled workers. I really can't see how you could make it work, but I would be fascinated if someone has some ideas to solve these (IMHO not-trivial) problems.