This might be a good place to list some issues I have encountered while being a contractor online: * I've been burned a few times charging by project or by mil

This might be a good place to list some issues I have encountered while being a contractor online: * I've been burned a few times charging by project or by milestone instead of hourly. So I appreciate that you are starting with a daily rate. * I've also been caught between getting too many small contract offers and failing to land large contracts. It would be really helpful to magically figure this out for me (this is the killer feature that I dream of, matching contractors to the jobs that resonate with them). It may involve being able to join groups of other programmers or having your site play more of a recruiter/HR liaison than usual, to shelter us to some degree from being public facing, but also get our feet in the door. * Escrow is great and I also really like that oDesk guarantees you will be paid for any hours worked under their timer. But if you could find a way to do this without the timer, perhaps with a peer review of some kind that says "this person knows what he or she is doing", it would really relieve the tension of being watched over the shoulder. Also roughly half of the mental work I do now is subconscious, which limits me to perhaps 4 billable hours a day of visible work. Another way to say this is, I have trouble crossing more than 1 or 2 items off my to-do list each day because I have to do XYZ first, or fix something that used to work, or finish subcomponents first, and so much of my day would look like idle time to an outside observer, even though I am thinking hard.