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marcamillion | 9 years ago

Not sure if Upwork does it, but Upwork is the antithesis of the type of network that I am interested in building.

The projects you get are usually bottom of the barrel.

I have no interest in those types of projects.

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jwong_|9 years ago

Yeah, Upwork is terrible, but that's because it is trying to compete on scale and price.

It seems the idea you have is a way to pass on high-quality projects that you'd otherwise take, to someone you know and can vet. You'd likely have someone in mind already, versus having it be a huge network of other people.

Unless you wanted to hire someone who administers this group, and keeps it close-knit so that people don't dump crap projects onto good workers, or good projects to crap workers, I don't see how this can work. I don't see it as being able to grow very much besides a group of friends or former colleagues.

marcamillion|9 years ago

Yeh this is exactly the problem I am trying to solve.

Not quite sure how to do that though, and if it is even possible.