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Originally Posted by gar1976
If companies want to pay to place ads for full-time positions there, go for it. Maybe have the wanted ads split into two sections, one for full time and one for contract work.
You need to be flexible - if the demand is there for a different kind of website, than supply what is desired.
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This is exactly what I suggested so far.
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Originally Posted by maleficent
So the website basically acts as a pimp for freelancers? The company pays the website to find a freelancer? Eventually it's going to start charging, what kind of guarentee do they get that they will get someone competent? Even without charging, what about my time and project time spent on someone who was not competent?
What's your competition outside your targeted area doing? How do they handle and judge the level of competence of people?
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Yes, you might say that the website is acting as a pimp. It doesn't charge anything, but once it will become a valid source for experts, it will charge money. I'm sure you can see where the problem is so far. The companies have no guarantees that the freelancers are any good. Originally the problem was supposed to be solved by virtual portfolios, but than anyone can put anything in their online portfolios.
The people at the website have come up with a few solutions, but they're still pondering if it's worth to implement them. One of them would be a point system, assigned to users by the companies, upon completion of the project, not unlike Ebay's positive and negative comments. The other solution, suggested by the users, is to have user-groups, which can apply for projects as a single entity.
Still, the basic problems are not solved, as far as I can see. First of all, companies are not interested in finding freelancers this way, since they can’t be sure about just how good and reliable they are. Heck, even though they hired me to cooperate on this, I decided not to use that site to look for help on my projects, for the precise same reasons.
As far as the competition goes, they're battling thesame problems as we do (to my best knowledge). There are a few sites like ours, and all of them have registered freelancers, mostly in the IT and arts (photo and CGI) departments.
At this point one might ask if there is a point to all this. Well, there is. It's a 40 million citizens country, with it's IT concentrated around two major cities and a lot fine experts scattered all over the place. This is meant as a tool for aiding projects that could be completed without the need to relocate the workers.