Really appreciate the response Coneliu. Thanks Tom
On 17 September 2015 at 16:57, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]> wrote: > Few years ago when I had lots more free time and no company to run and > keep me busy I used to sell some of my time on www.elance.com (similar > site with freelancer). > I had some pretty unique skill set and I was not competing with the mass > of developers on there and I was getting quite often offers for various > complicated projects: Visual Studio plugins and extensions, Outlook > extensions, couple of custom skype plugins, random debugging & fixing jobs, > web & sql performance, code and architectural reviews. Some of the projects > I only had to start them and get them to a point where a cheaper or not so > experienced developer could pick it up and continue/finish/polish/maintain > which was very cool. > I liked the projects I did and because of my odd skillset I was getting > some nice money but never enough to sustain a family or make it primary job. > If you can differentiate yourself you'll get every now and then some cool > projects. There are millions of web developers with > PHP/jQuery/WordPress/random framework. > > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Stephen Price <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I know some people who use it (or similar sites like fiverr.com) and >> like Dotnet Dude says (wait, who ARE you dude?) the people who do the work >> do it at a super cheap price (with comparable quality). Not saying you >> can't find someone who does a good job on there, but its a bit of a >> lottery. You can find good people there who work for next to nothing, and >> you will be competing with them. >> >> On the flip side, if you do want to find people on sites like this, I've >> heard the best way to get the quality is to put the work out to a number of >> people. You assign the same task to say five developers and let them know >> you have done so. The one who comes through with the goods gets further >> work. >> >> There is an Australian one called Airtasker that you might get more luck >> with for finding local work. >> https://www.airtasker.com/tasks/website-content-for-a-small-business-379540/?utm_campaign=TASK%20ALERT%20-%20EMAIL&utm_content=control&utm_medium=email&utm_source=vero&utm_term=Transactional&vero_conv=1046423257 >> >> There are some web dev jobs on there and I've seen some higher rates on >> there. (ie $1000). >> >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 at 15:41 DotNet Dude <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> No real experience with any but problem with them imo is you're >>> competing against people from all around the world who will be willing to >>> do the work for way less than you who lives in here in Oz. Plus I can just >>> imagine what the specs would be like. I wouldn't bother with it if I were >>> you, find something locally if you can with a real company. >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Tom P <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Does anybody here have experience with freelancer.com.au or similar >>>> sites? I'm hoping to get some work from it. Any recommendations or advice >>>> on which ones to use or avoid. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks >>>> Tom >>>> >>> >>> >
