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Is there a modern equivalent of rentacoder?

A dozen years ago, rentacoder was 99.5% people wanting impossible things for $50 but there were some worthwhile "I want a visual basic app that does this clearly defined task and can be created in two days" jobs. (rentacoder got sold and stopped being useful)

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I wasn't around for the rentacoder days but it just sounds like the inverse of fiverr, upwork, etc.

https://www.codementor.io/ is another one. Once you sign up, these random tasks pop up. It is a lot of wasted time monitoring them and the quality of jobs can be suspect, much like Fivver, so you've got to screen out bad clients.

Truelancer has worked fine for me.

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