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Rooftop

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Re: Best Skills resource Sites
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2017, 04:21:48 PM »
I use upwork a lot.  I used to use peopleperhour, but they basically ripped me off so I don't now.
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« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2017, 10:07:56 AM »
Rooftop you said:
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They have apparently been charging me to look after that credit and it has been slowly reducing, which is bloody cheeky

Freelancer do that too now.  $10 per month I think. Leaves a bad taste.
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« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2017, 10:39:22 AM »
I currently use peopleperhour and upwork (previously odesk).

I use them for the following

Upwork for cheaper, lower skilled jobs -  had mixed experiances but found some good regular talent.
People per hour - for more specific, higher skilled tasks, however the quality of submission has been going downhill of late, they have also raised their rates and put barriers in place for people to easily sign up, so I would imagine freelancers are also looking elsewhere now. However, saying that, I have still found some excellent people, it just takes longer, more filtering and there is less of them.  I would also avoid using their service where you just post the job and they choose a freelancer, I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head. The people they sent me had no idea what they were doing.

I use to use rentacoder for php at one point but the skills pool and traction had gone the last couple of times I tried, they may be better now. Haven't tried them for over 3 years now.
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Re: Best Skills resource Sites
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2017, 10:48:35 AM »
Quote from: ergophobe on February 04, 2016, 04:31:17 PM
I've only used MTurk a couple of times for transcriptions of video. So I don't know it and this conversation with Jake was a couple of years ago, so hazy on details. His main message was that people are using MTurk all wrong and there is huge potential if people knew how to use it.

A few things I remember....

>>https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk

I think the one he said was most active was
http://turkernation.com/

I think there's another one too

Also, he said he paid a lot. He aimed to pay people $15/hr, more if they were really good. Partly that was just a matter of his personal philosophy/ethics, but partly because being one of the best payers means that when you post a job, you bump to the front of the queue.

Now is where I'm getting hazy, but I believe he said that he does small jobs as "auditions." If people prove themselves, they go into his pool of top performers. Then when he posts big jobs, only his top performers get the invites. Since he's paying more than most, they top performers drop everything else and do his work. So he can scale up really fast.

He kept emphasizing that people see MTurk as a *cheap* way to get help and he thinks that misses the potential. If you don't try to go cheap, it becomes a fast, quality, scalable way to get help.

Again, this was a dinner conversation at Pubcon and I didn't go last year, so it was 1.5 or 2.5 years ago so I'm scratching the deep memory banks.


It makes sense I do the same with other freelancer websites (mentioned above) and it works well, I have some really good regulars.
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