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Fiverr and CraigsList already does most that. Freelancer and Indeed fits the other parts of your niche. How are you going make this solvent? What is your pric

Fiverr and CraigsList already does most that. Freelancer and Indeed fits the other parts of your niche. How are you going make this solvent? What is your pricing model? What you want to do has been done before. But it usually dies on vine because it can't get the traction in the industry or folds on the bandwidth cost. Sit down and write a full business plan on how you get your business going and keep it going. And yes, even non-profits have businesses plans.

ricksharp 9y ago
Most of the sites charge a 10%-20% cut of the job, restrict direct communication, ban people regularly for stepping out of line, and are designed to make the owner a bunch of money (instead of the freelancer making good income and the client getting a good product). I want to build a site by developers for developers. I would make money by doing contracts myself, as would all developers who worked on the site. We would all benefit by cutting out the middle man and offering a premium service where we can't compete today. The overhead of a site like this is minimal and bandwidth costs would be paid on a volunteer basis (sponsored by developers/freelancers like me).
- randomerr 9y ago
  Do have a business plan put together yet? What will be your costs? Servers platform, bandwidth, database, administrative (you need paid)? How are going to make money when everything is voluntary? Please talk with a mentor at the link below: https://www.score.org/find-mentor https://www.score.org/find-mentor If you factor all that in you you have to charge 10%-20% to fund the base services?. If have an abusive client or contractor are you going let them go to harass? Yes, then you'll have low overhead but a bad reputations for not protecting your people. No, then you'll look restrictive and have a higher administrative cost. Don;t forget admistrative costs. Your time costs money. It also keeps you away from working on contract. Your point about 'designed to make the owner a bunch of money': you do realize that most of these site work on 1-10% profit margin with the owner putting in 60-100 hour a week for 5-10 years before they turn a profit if ever. Here's a good read on that: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/long-business-profitable/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/long-bu... I really think you need to set done with a pen and paper with electronic devices turned off and write down a list of similar services. Write down what you like and dislike about them. Then write out what why they would do something you dislike.

ricksharp 9y ago

Most of the sites charge a 10%-20% cut of the job, restrict direct communication, ban people regularly for stepping out of line, and are designed to make the owner a bunch of money (instead of the freelancer making good income and the client getting a good product). I want to build a site by developers for developers. I would make money by doing contracts myself, as would all developers who worked on the site. We would all benefit by cutting out the middle man and offering a premium service where we can't compete today. The overhead of a site like this is minimal and bandwidth costs would be paid on a volunteer basis (sponsored by developers/freelancers like me).

randomerr 9y ago
Do have a business plan put together yet? What will be your costs? Servers platform, bandwidth, database, administrative (you need paid)? How are going to make money when everything is voluntary? Please talk with a mentor at the link below: https://www.score.org/find-mentor https://www.score.org/find-mentor If you factor all that in you you have to charge 10%-20% to fund the base services?. If have an abusive client or contractor are you going let them go to harass? Yes, then you'll have low overhead but a bad reputations for not protecting your people. No, then you'll look restrictive and have a higher administrative cost. Don;t forget admistrative costs. Your time costs money. It also keeps you away from working on contract. Your point about 'designed to make the owner a bunch of money': you do realize that most of these site work on 1-10% profit margin with the owner putting in 60-100 hour a week for 5-10 years before they turn a profit if ever. Here's a good read on that: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/long-business-profitable/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/long-bu... I really think you need to set done with a pen and paper with electronic devices turned off and write down a list of similar services. Write down what you like and dislike about them. Then write out what why they would do something you dislike.