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I'm not sure this would work well for the user, simply because you're distributing a limited number of jobs to a large number of developers. Even if you cap at
by eric_bullington 12y ago
I'm not sure this would work well for the user, simply because you're distributing a limited number of jobs to a large number of developers. Even if you cap at 150, and only 20% of those are Pythonistas, that's still 30 people after the same job.
And frankly, most advertised freelance jobs are bottom feeders who just want cheap and fast. With this type of service, there's no big incentive for the service to avoid listing those jobs.
I'd much rather the placement service take a percentage, say 10 or 15% of the total. Then, the incentives are lined up right. They'll look for the highest paying jobs, avoid bottom feeders, and they'll be sure to give the job to the best performer in whatever sub-specialty area (say Python desktop apps).
- muhuk 12y agoI agree that lining up the incentives right is very important. But from a business perspective making a commissions based strategy work is tricky. Especially if you can get rid of the bottom feeders. Then there'll be a good incentive for both the employee and employer to grab that $1500 (a 10% commission on a 15k job). Then comes ridiculous measures like the screen grabbers and the 3rd party holding your onto your payment etc.