Ask HN: What would you do to fix freelancer for hire sites?
Have you had any issues with freelance for hire sites, or the clients using them?
If you could make the current solutions better, what would you do to change them?
If you could make the current solutions better, what would you do to change them?
I agree with jefflinwood's comment. Setting a price floor at a reasonable rate will weed out the "$300 for facebook" clients. I'm not sure, however, how you would weed out the bad coders.
Here's what I would do to fix things on the freelancer side - establish a minimum price per hour/price per project. Think about "The Ladders" - a job site that established itself as only for job seekers for $100,000+ jobs.
What if the market was only $75/hour and up? And both developers and clients had to be invited?
On the other hand, whenever I try to hire, my compromises are usually poor communication skills or sub-par code.
We're focusing on attracting the right type of client and we'd love to have your feedback along the way.