It surprises me that nobody's mentioned Fiverr in the same vein.
I'd think "an Uber for creative work" is at least prone to the same incentives to cut out the middleman.
I'd think "an Uber for creative work" is at least prone to the same incentives to cut out the middleman.
There's really no way for them to stop it. It's all just about if they want to deal with invoicing and other stuff themselves or go direct. Many don't want to bother. But every wall they throw up makes it more likely people will jump off after that initial aquisition.
But many of these jobs ARE just one shots. Tho I usually go back to the same folks who did good work and communicated well with later tasks.
In the case of creative work, it's arguably less hassle to let Fiverr handle things than to sign into a bunch of one-off contracts, and reserve "cut[ting] out the middleman" for cases where someone has consistently delivered work to your standards (or, on the other side, has consistently paid well) and there's a desire to make for a more long-term arrangement than one-off jobs.