Anybody used pimpwork?

[tickler]

I got a few small ones from eLance once upon a time.

Originally Posted by MadCat

Unfortunately no way to talk some sense into them and getting them to realise that offering 300 bucks for a month's work isn't something that will get me all fired up

More like a mornings work!

[MadCat]

Originally Posted by tickler

I got a few small ones from eLance once upon a time.

More like a mornings work!

Mmhmm, there was a project on there that I contacted the guy about (the one that wanted the project done), and it basically consisted of "make me a youtube clone, you do all the work, i won't tell you what i want, i expect you to miracle it together to my exacting specifications that i won't be giving you" -- to the tune of $1000.

Now, usually speaking, $1000 gets you, give or take, about 10 of my hours. Let's be generous and say I'll give you 2 man days for a grand (16 hours total).

Now I spend at least a day trying to miracle together whatever it is this guy has in mind, followed by 1 day of shoddy implementation because it's going to take more than a day to build. Then I'll get stiffed on the payment because I didn't build what the guy had in mind, even though he flat out refused to give me specs.

No thanks. Pricetags for jobs like that start at 5 grand.

So yeah, the idea of that site is fine, just that if you're not in a position to charge $10/hr and survive, it's not much use to find jobs. Getting stuff done, not so much either. You'll get it cheap but in the end you get what you pay for, shoddy code.