[worg]

I wish people stopped defining their products as _Uber, but in $DOMAIN_ tbh it rubs many people the wrong way, a couple of examples: Am I as a developer going to get the same mistreatment uber riders get? Is this platform running on red numbers and betting to become a monopoly in the long run so they can be profitable once users are locked in and they set a higher price?

Having said that, the idea behind it is cool, and applying that to open source contributions would be great

[matsemann]

I don't even understand what "Uber for coding" is supposed to mean.

If anything, the uber parallel is hurting. Am I supposed to be underpaid, have no employee rights etc?

[worik]

Yes. Ouch.

But where I live if you work on movies or games as a computer programmer you already have no rights.

New Zealand. We call it the "Warner Brothers" law, because they are the ones who paid the prime minister to enact it

[CSMastermind]

All they really mean to say is "two-way marketplace". Aka "we're a platform used by both buyers and sellers of a service. We arrange the exchange of labor for a fee then the two of you work it out."

[IncRnd]

> All they really mean to say is "two-way marketplace". Aka "we're a platform used by both buyers and sellers of a service. We arrange the exchange of labor for a fee then the two of you work it out."

That's your belief, but it is more likely to mean they have uber on their minds along the lines of "we are starting a marketplace with plans to be as big as uber, even if we have to ignore laws and treat everyone but ourselves like dirt."

[stevage]

Yeah, for me "Uber" is shorthand for an unethical, poorly run company. Takes me a while to work out what the OP meant to convey in each case.