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 <step...@perthprojects.com> 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 <adotnetd...@gmail.com> 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 <tompbi...@gmail.com> 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 >>> >> >>
