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I agree with your view. You technically don't have to do screenshots on Upwork but then you are not eligible for payment protection. On one occasion I had a cl
by msadowski 6y ago
I agree with your view. You technically don't have to do screenshots on Upwork but then you are not eligible for payment protection.
On one occasion I had a client not pay, but thanks to the Upwork protection I got paid quickly and then they resolved it with the client.
If I was doing a similar service as UpWork and wanted to offer a kind of payment protection I'm not sure how I would go about that. I'm thinking maybe something like a code diff week-after-week sent to the client but at the same time not everything can be diffed (especially countless meetings with clients). Would you have some ideas?
- W0lf 6y agoI'd really would encourage you (and other fellow software contractors) to not think in terms of amount of code produced but in terms of solutions brought to the client that helped solving a specific business problem. As I've responded to another comment, there is no correlation between the amount of ASCII chars produced and productivity/net gain for the client. As for UpWork it doesn't make it any better (for me) if their payment protection is bound to this kind of screenshot surveillance. If they don't offer a payment protection in every* case, I wonder why they exist in the first place other than talking a good cut from your daily rate and making everything more complicated for both the software contractor and the client.
- msadowski 6y agoThanks for the advice! I'm a big fan of value pricing and I've been actively trying to win some contracts like this but didn't succeed (yet). Also I take projects outside of Upwork, however, I don't get as much traction outside of that platform, and as much as I would like to live off direct contracts it doesn't seem it will happen anytime soon.