freelancer essentially caters to people who say "my nephew makes websites for free, why can't you?"
freelancer is full of people who can afford to work for far less than what is considered minimum wage in North America and Western Europe.
freelancer cares only about people who give them projects so they can take a cut. charging people to work was not enough.
it's time someone came up with a new freelance site.
- make it only accessible in North America and Western Europe. (the commodity prices work in other parts of hte world but not where the basic living costs are far higher)
- Guaranteed minimum hourly wage.
- rigorously filter projects being posted (no more build me an Android app for $5, "my newphew can do it bro why not you?")
- No bidding or fixed priced contracts. Hourly rate projects only.
>make it only accessible in North America and Western Europe
What for? Sure I understand that it is good for coders in North America and Western Europe because it protects them from the competition, but why should the consumers care?
Although there is a negative stereotype about South Asian coders, I don't see a reason why a coder from outside of the developed word should be inherently low-skilled. My impression is that the main body of coders from South America and Eastern Europe, at least those who can speak English, are just as good as the main body of North American or Western European coders. Then there are a lot of really good people from South Asia, it's unfair and senseless to exclude them from this market. I am pretty sure any sane person would have problems with this kind of racial profiling even if there was no other way to establish whether or not given person is fit for the industry, which is not even the case.
Well, exclude regional profiling and basically you have invented toptal.
freelancer is full of people who can afford to work for far less than what is considered minimum wage in North America and Western Europe.
freelancer cares only about people who give them projects so they can take a cut. charging people to work was not enough.
it's time someone came up with a new freelance site. - make it only accessible in North America and Western Europe. (the commodity prices work in other parts of hte world but not where the basic living costs are far higher) - Guaranteed minimum hourly wage. - rigorously filter projects being posted (no more build me an Android app for $5, "my newphew can do it bro why not you?") - No bidding or fixed priced contracts. Hourly rate projects only.