At 9:36 AM -0500 10/10/08, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
www.rentacoder.com
www.scriptlance.com

...and probably a hundred others. I just find I'm often drastically
outbid by someone from a developing 2nd-world nation that doesn't mind
building and designing an entire corporate web application for $10 ($3
of which is generally taken by the crowd-sourcing site on which the
transaction takes place).

The thing is, though, that I'm sure a lot of those jobs go unfinished or
are "finished" sloppily. When people stop caring so much about squeezing
their dollar, and start to care about actually getting a good product
from their seller/coder relationship, I might get back into it.

I had a paid account with guru.com and spent a full year answering proposals (> 100) -- I didn't get a single job. It was a complete waste of time for me, but I am sure it works for others.

I just landed a client who had a very bad experience with rentacoder. So, it appears that the 2nd-world nation programming experience is providing some kick-back work for honest programmers. At least I receive more business from people who have had problems with "cheap" programming than those high-profile sites who sell "cheap" programming serves.

Cheers,

tedd


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