I did lot of work in rentacoder (renamed to vworker and acquired by freelancer.com.au). I did mainly PHP and Delphi for 6 years and I stopped when I moved to Oz from Europe. It wasn't worthy because of the higher cost of living here.
Competition was fierce and I was competing with people asking for peanuts. Clients in the freelance websites are usually looking for budget services but there is a minority who understand that when you pay peanuts you get monkeys and they are willing to pay higher rates but not high enough for our higher cost of living in Oz. Specs were decent when I was dealing with people from US or Oz. Biggest time waster for me it was communication. You need to invest time in communication if you want returning customers. I will agree with dotnet dude. You better look in your local market. On 18 September 2015 at 08:21, Tom P <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >
