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What this story and the comments here tell me is that the market for a developer focused contract<-->bid site is ripe for competition. There are only a few wel

What this story and the comments here tell me is that the market for a developer focused contract<-->bid site is ripe for competition. There are only a few well known branded marketplaces in the industry, and they all seem to be quite poor in the eyes of skilled developers. Maybe there is a continuous decline towards the bottom after a marketplace becomes a certain size, but I wish that there were more options to find contracts as a developer without onerous contracts which strip skilled people of their rights.

mrhappyunhappy 9y ago
I’m a designer and clients always ask me if I can recommend a developer. I can’t seem to network with any good developers who I can honestly recommend to my clients. I even started a freelance slack group in hopes of broadening my network but that hasn’t really done much.
- meric 9y ago
  What are your details? As a developer I’d like to know more designers I can refer to!
- AlbertoGP 9y ago
  Hi, I've tried to find some way of contacting you, looked though your post history but nothing came out. I'm interested in joining your freelancer group, and see whether I could be useful to some of your customers. As others have mentioned, remote work from sites like Elance/Upwork and PeoplePerHour (I'm currently in both) has dwindled in the last years, and by now most of my work comes from repeat customers instead of new leads from there. I guess your customers ask for web development: the last finished job that I can show you is a balloon sculpture design tool for a business in Australia: http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/design_tool.html#grid http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/design_tool.html#grid The full source code can be seen right there: http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/index.js http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/index.js You can find a couple other examples in my portfolio: https://sentido-labs.com/en/portfolio/ https://sentido-labs.com/en/portfolio/

mrhappyunhappy 9y ago

I’m a designer and clients always ask me if I can recommend a developer. I can’t seem to network with any good developers who I can honestly recommend to my clients. I even started a freelance slack group in hopes of broadening my network but that hasn’t really done much.

meric 9y ago
What are your details? As a developer I’d like to know more designers I can refer to!
AlbertoGP 9y ago
Hi, I've tried to find some way of contacting you, looked though your post history but nothing came out. I'm interested in joining your freelancer group, and see whether I could be useful to some of your customers. As others have mentioned, remote work from sites like Elance/Upwork and PeoplePerHour (I'm currently in both) has dwindled in the last years, and by now most of my work comes from repeat customers instead of new leads from there. I guess your customers ask for web development: the last finished job that I can show you is a balloon sculpture design tool for a business in Australia: http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/design_tool.html#grid http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/design_tool.html#grid The full source code can be seen right there: http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/index.js http://www.balloons.com.au/tools/index.js You can find a couple other examples in my portfolio: https://sentido-labs.com/en/portfolio/ https://sentido-labs.com/en/portfolio/