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- aditya 15y agoSo, I'm always getting asked for referrals to good people (engineers, designers, etc.) Here's what I'm thinking of building: http://auctionme.me http://auctionme.me (I'll find a better name, promise!) as a side project But if you find yourself in that boat, please take the survey and let me know!
- akavlie 15y agoSurvey taken. I'm concerned that any competitive bid site like this will lead to the foreigners underbidding Americans, a la elance & oDesk. How will your service avoid that?
- duck 15y agoI think I would spin it and make it North America only (or is there something that already does that?). That would be a great selling point for a lot people.
- aditya 15y agoYeah, that is a huge problem with elance, etc. Two things I've been thinking about 1) Invite only referral system - You only get in if someone vouches for you -- keeps quality up, probably keeps your cost up as well, if you want bottom of the barrel you go to one of the other places. 2) If it ends up being completely open, then people can sort by third-party signals (github followers, stackoverflow karma, quora karma, linkedin connections, etc.) Thanks for taking the survey!
- jswinghammer 15y agoSeems like a price floor would solve that problem assuming that's what the people paying for the contractors really want solved.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoI'm ready to compete with anybody, as long as folks know how good I am - so I don't end up competing with a newbie at .1 the price that they will never deliver on.
- GeneralMaximus 15y agoI promise I'll charge just as much as American developers. No, really ;)
- epoxyhockey 15y agoThe one feature I like about vWorker is that, when posting a job, I can limit the potential contractors to "mature economies," defined as the US, Western Europe and Australia.
- oneplusone 15y agooDesk and elance leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The only real way I can see using one of these services is where the potential employers bid on my limited time, and not the other way around. That way your helping the workers to get paid more, and you are not helping the employers pay less.
- baltcode 15y agoIs http://www.coderloop.com/ http://www.coderloop.com/ relevant to this?
- agentfin 15y agoi've been working on this problem for folks in production/post-production rather than in programming/dev. would love to chat on what i've got so far. there are some very big differences between what folks who are new to freelance need vs those who are 'old hat' and very little that is out there to connect these individuals together. im interested in trying to solve the issues that many industries are currently having with mentorship and education while also making sure folks work at rewarding jobs. ...is this really an "auction?"
- aditya 15y agoWould love to chat, drop me a note (email in profile). Yeah, I'm not certain if auctioning your time will really work, but once people start using the system, I'll know better. It is a fairly interesting problem, and lots of things you can do.
- smackay 15y agoI am curious as to why the "hiring/freelancing" problem has not been cracked yet. Given the issues with global sites such as oDesk and elance perhaps the problem really does not scale without sacrificing either reliability or quality and an inherently local solution either in terms of geography for a specific city or more widely for a specific skillset is the most realistic approach so that referrals and personal recommendations still carry some weight.
- richcollins 15y agoWTF is a survey doing on the front page of HN?
- adnam 15y agoIt's not all that uncommon.
- kp212 15y agoI hope you post the results of the survey.