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This is happening, just not at the pace you expected after falling for the hype.

It is a growing market, with lots of competition: https://ws.elance.com/file/Mar...

Some ideas; Do check this link http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/0... Contribute to open source projects when you don't have work https://guides.github.com/acti... Freelance through the elance or other coder for hire type sites https://www.elance.com/ Start your own IT support company/freelance/contract/game development, whatever your strongest skills are https://www.sba.gov/ Get your company registered as a state/federal contractor and bid http://www.procure.ohio.gov/pr... http://www.gsa.gov/portal/cate...

"As news of the cuts spread, some critics suggested other recording artist social media could be similarly manipulated."

Well, that explains this rather bold request on Elance:

https://www.elance.com/j/build-software-that-makes-itunes-sales-go-up/36006811/

"I need a talented freelancer developer to develop a software tool for Mac, or online web based which we input an iTunes Link for a Song or an App. Then it automatically increases their sale to the top charts.

I've seen 2 companies do it. i will give more details about it on message to work on how its done."

This must be rather widespread, as the employer references existing solutions. The employer seems to think this is OK enough to make an open request in a public place. (Wouldn't it be a shame if this employer were slashdotted?)

Some freelance/flexible workplace websites: 1) flexjobs - job site offering over 50 career categories and jobs ranging from entry-level to executive, freelance to full-time. http://www.flexjobs.com/About.aspx 2) Elance and oDesk - online employment sites for freelancers/contractors. https://www.elance.com/q/about-elance and https://www.odesk.com/ 3) Mom Corps - offers part-time, flexible work for working moms http://www.momcorps.com/home.aspx Also check out info on http://sites.google.com/site/techcareerreentry about networking and online classes. (It's aimed at tech career re-entry, but also has info useful for your situation.) Linux groups often are good sources for info on work opportunities, often small short-term projects are advertised on the email list for a couple Linux groups I'm a member of.

php opens many, MANY doors. proof below.

http://elance.com/

As if there's not a competitive market now.

Not for iPhone, iPod, and iPad

So this is a lie: The iPhone 4 faces stiff competition? As is The Year of the Tablet: The iPad's Competition and Ipod Vs Competitors? And there are no businesses looking for Android developers?

I never said Apple's engineering was bad

No, but I said that, and you responded with something totally irrelevant about reinstalling Windows. Hence my question: what does reinstalling Windows have to do with Apple's bad software engineering?

I guess you don't understand simple English. Yes you brought up Apple's bad engineering so I asked if it is so bad then why have I had problems with Apple's competitors' product but not Apple's products? Again I have not had problems with any Apple engineered products but I have had problems with products engineered by Apple's competitors. How stupid can you get?

Falcon

Yes, it does exist: Elance

If you can imagine it, then someone has already done it or is working on it

This isn't about Wikipedia hiring editors, but rather companies or groups hiring editors for Wikipedia, sometimes in violation of policies.

It looks like the person in question has done exactly that. I can't link straight to the page but here is the author's profile. Click on "Web Content (9)". This will show reviews of his work. He was paid $125 for a project titled "Wikipedia submission for my new product". He even got a rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 for the work. He was paid $150 for another project title "Write our Wikipedia Listing for Our Company".

This isn't about Wikipedia hiring editors, but rather companies or groups hiring editors for Wikipedia, sometimes in violation of policies.

It looks like the person in question has done exactly that. I can't link straight to the page but here is the author's profile. Click on "Web Content (9)". This will show reviews of his work. He was paid $125 for a project titled "Wikipedia submission for my new product". He even got a rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 for the work. He was paid $150 for another project title "Write our Wikipedia Listing for Our Company".

This isn't about Wikipedia hiring editors, but rather companies or groups hiring editors for Wikipedia, sometimes in violation of policies.

It looks like the person in question has done exactly that. I can't link straight to the page but here is the author's profile. Click on "Web Content (9)". This will show reviews of his work. He was paid $125 for a project titled "Wikipedia submission for my new product". He even got a rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 for the work. He was paid $150 for another project title "Write our Wikipedia Listing for Our Company".

I'd do the following. Put your code in Subversion or some other version control system. Find someone (maybe in your environment, maybe on Elance) who does this sort of stuff for a living.

Pay him to check out the code of your sites and your databases. Let him save his changes in your version control system, then go look for yourself to see what he changed. Reserve an extra hour of face or phone time with the guy to walk through all changes.

You won't like this answer but if I were you, I'd calculate my income versus the time it would take me to learn and do the design on my own and then hire someone for this budget. You can find great talent on http://www.elance.com/ and elsewhere.

If you insist on rolling your own, I'd start with this book: The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321534042

I would build the site on some simple CMS like CMS Made Simple, http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ Then, I would add a ready-made CSS template from a site like http://www.oswd.org/ Also, you could just suggest to your boss that you buy the design along with the CSS. There are tons of freelance designers on the web with excellent references available. Our company has bought some amazing designs for as little as 200$. Try a site like http://www.elance.com/ for starters.

http://www.kasamba.com/ (they have more than just a "technical" advice area)
http://elance.com/
http://www.scriptlance.com/

Personally these sites really don't encourage a Buyer/Bidder relationship, and I have had my accounts on elance, and kasamba, banned for initiating direct contact with my clients. Ofcourse talking through the vale of secrecy and the worst e-mail systems ever concocted by a webcoder are always the best means of communications with clients.
As these sites want there Buyers to keep posting more projects so they can continue to leech money from both sides out of either in monthly membership fees, posting fees, and percentage of earnings fees.

I have plenty of clients that do that. I usually ask them if they could at least provide me with the topics they would like to cover. Then I take the topic list and start looking for freelance writers on eLance. They can usually whip out a decent amount of copy for $100 - $200 dollars. I then add 20% - 40% markup and bill the client.

If you are too lazy or too ignorant to understand why you need to give your developer the copy, you end up paying someone else to do it.

MauiX will most likely never make anything that is there own software. Here are some links this one is the pakistani offshoring company that produced Cherryos, VX30 and ZENTU for MAUIX http://www.elance.com/c/fp/main/viewportfolio.pl?a ction=listportfolio&view_person=comsdev&catid=1021 6 Here is that companies website COMSDEV http://www.comsdev.com.pk/portfolio.html This is someone that worked for COMSDEV http://216.92.122.128/projects/10909.html BilalNiaz Scroll down that site to find his name and credits. 7. Zentu ( Video Messenger Application ) 10. www.vx30.com 1. Poingo PDF Writer/Printer Although the poingo one after going around in a circle finally released that as open source. Poingo did not have a clue what was inside of their app. So thumbs up for poingo but thumbs down for COMSDEV As far as mauix The zentu is just a modified VX30 a different interface unless you choose EXPERT MODE then you see the VX30 dialogs. Which Zentu has almost all of the same things inside as vx30 because it is vx30 in disguise. Things like this \Work\Projects\Zentu Encoder 1.0\Vx30 2.x\src\Flash\libavformat\avformat_utils.c ffmpeg: LAME compiled with buggy version of gcc using advanced optimizations LAME3.96 Even dialogs have same mispellings as vx30s. The same stuff different name.

What am I supposed to do for money? I don't want a free ride but odds are that, if I wouldn't hire someone disabled like me, nobody else will either.

My dad always told me to get a profession (lawyer, doctor, etc.), not a job. With a job, say as a manager, you're always dependent on a company being willing to employ you for your income. With a profession, you can work for a company or a firm, or hang out your own shingle and work for yourself. One of the best things about being a skilled developer is that it's more of a profession than a job, and you can hang out your own shingle if a company won't hire you. Sounds like you've got the skills to do so, and now a business degree to help you with the financial/legal/managerial side of running your own business, so why not give it a try?

There are multiple options: contract application development (http://www.dice.com/ http://www.scriptlance.com/ http://www.getafreelancer.com/ http://www.rentacoder.com/ http://www.elance.com/ government & corporate grants for small tech businesses (http://www.technologygrantnews.com/), or various tech-related consulting services (here's one somewhat related to your situation - http://www.adaptivetech.net/).

It's easy to get into the mindset of thinking the only way to make money is by working for a corporation, and to an extent that's probably the most secure way, unless the corporation goes under. But there are other avenues that while initiallly more difficult may give you more control over your own destiny, and hence may prove to be both more secure and more rewarding in the long run. Try to identify a need that your skills and experiences allow you to address in a unique way. For example, your tech skills and long experience, plus MS might allow for some interesting services to people with MS and similar demographics, and would probably be a decent candidate for a government small business grant. Think about it.

You are already on the right track if the projects are "well defined." I have had several experiences on eLance and the best results happen when you know exactly what you want. I mean, exactly. If you need something in ATL or MFC with specific dependencies (or lack of them), say so. The more specific the better.

Also specify how the project will be tested before being delivered to you. The end of the project can be the most frustrating. I have decided it's often easier to take ownership of the whole thing and do the little items (spelling and grammar in the UI) rather than trying to pass it back to them.

Finally, think about IP issues. If you think the project (or your whole company) will ever be bought by any large company, they will ask questions about where the code came from in due diligence. Get some assurances that the code they created "for you" is not yanked from some open source project.

Pick a project from http://www.elance.com/, http://www.rentacoder.com/, or some other freelance platform to test your coding skills. If you have an account, you could even earn some money.

So lemme get this straight...

You're excited about what's possible if you could find the right people? ... and they'd work for you?

...and you're frustrated you can't find available visionaries?

You are describing nothing special, unique or unusual. You have money, experience and ideas... and you want very talented people to help you execute those ideas.

Join. The. Crowd.

And since you know that ideas are fucking worthless, here's some links to help you execute, IE, find some talent....

Search google for headhunters

Guru

Elance

Idea: Purchase ads in various publications likely to be read by people you want.

Good luck. I hope you can find who you're looking for. (and by that I mean, "It's hard to find good help."

Arben Girlfriend's Private web site w/ photos!!!.
Be sure to check out Mr.Goofy with his new Porsche

What's really SAD is the fact that he could not even do his girflriend's site himself. He gave that "project" to others
W.

Apparently, Arben Kryeziu is really no deveoper of any kind.
As people already suspected, he stole the PearPC code for CherryOS, he most likely stole Java code for his VX streamer (see posts above). And now I have reason to suspect that he also did not develop the bumpnetworks.com website.
He posted an outsourcing bid for one of his web site developments (bumpnetworks.com?). Search on that page for the string "Hello Arben Kryeziu" and "Hello Bumpnetworks" to confirm this. Now scroll to the winner's bid (will say "AWARDED" on the left). His location Donetsk, UA (Ukraine -> Russia). Now, go to bumpnetworks.com and follow the menu: "Company -> Partnerships." You will discover Site-Mechanics to be a partner. Go there and visit their clientele references. You will notice that most of the clients and work done was in Russia(n). Could it be that that guy developed bumpnetworks.com (and many other)?

That leaves us with the original question: what did he really develop or did he "outsource and share code" (LOL) for everything. He seems to be good at talking the language of "the suits" and seems to be better at being a manager than doing the actual work.

Well here is the answer, which is also my GRAND FINALE!!!
if you visit his Elance Feedback profile and scroll all the way to the end you will notice TWO bids he put up:
#1 "Web Programming pdf to html conversion Beaux US$1,500.00"
AND...
#2 "Application Development PowerPC Emulator comsdev US$2,700.00"

If you visit both bids (bid 1 and bid 2 you will notice that he actually paid OTHER teams at Elance.com to do the dirty work for him.

I have very strong reason to suspect that he never wrote ANY part of any code of any kind! Instead, the people that actually STOLE the code from PearPC and PDF2HTML (read to verify) are the actual perpetrators!!!
How come nobody else established this connection?!

W.

Apparently, Arben Kryeziu is really no deveoper of any kind.
As people already suspected, he stole the PearPC code for CherryOS, he most likely stole Java code for his VX streamer (see posts above). And now I have reason to suspect that he also did not develop the bumpnetworks.com website.
He posted an outsourcing bid for one of his web site developments (bumpnetworks.com?). Search on that page for the string "Hello Arben Kryeziu" and "Hello Bumpnetworks" to confirm this. Now scroll to the winner's bid (will say "AWARDED" on the left). His location Donetsk, UA (Ukraine -> Russia). Now, go to bumpnetworks.com and follow the menu: "Company -> Partnerships." You will discover Site-Mechanics to be a partner. Go there and visit their clientele references. You will notice that most of the clients and work done was in Russia(n). Could it be that that guy developed bumpnetworks.com (and many other)?

That leaves us with the original question: what did he really develop or did he "outsource and share code" (LOL) for everything. He seems to be good at talking the language of "the suits" and seems to be better at being a manager than doing the actual work.

Well here is the answer, which is also my GRAND FINALE!!!
if you visit his Elance Feedback profile and scroll all the way to the end you will notice TWO bids he put up:
#1 "Web Programming pdf to html conversion Beaux US$1,500.00"
AND...
#2 "Application Development PowerPC Emulator comsdev US$2,700.00"

If you visit both bids (bid 1 and bid 2 you will notice that he actually paid OTHER teams at Elance.com to do the dirty work for him.

I have very strong reason to suspect that he never wrote ANY part of any code of any kind! Instead, the people that actually STOLE the code from PearPC and PDF2HTML (read to verify) are the actual perpetrators!!!
How come nobody else established this connection?!

W.

Apparently, Arben Kryeziu is really no deveoper of any kind.
As people already suspected, he stole the PearPC code for CherryOS, he most likely stole Java code for his VX streamer (see posts above). And now I have reason to suspect that he also did not develop the bumpnetworks.com website.
He posted an outsourcing bid for one of his web site developments (bumpnetworks.com?). Search on that page for the string "Hello Arben Kryeziu" and "Hello Bumpnetworks" to confirm this. Now scroll to the winner's bid (will say "AWARDED" on the left). His location Donetsk, UA (Ukraine -> Russia). Now, go to bumpnetworks.com and follow the menu: "Company -> Partnerships." You will discover Site-Mechanics to be a partner. Go there and visit their clientele references. You will notice that most of the clients and work done was in Russia(n). Could it be that that guy developed bumpnetworks.com (and many other)?

That leaves us with the original question: what did he really develop or did he "outsource and share code" (LOL) for everything. He seems to be good at talking the language of "the suits" and seems to be better at being a manager than doing the actual work.

Well here is the answer, which is also my GRAND FINALE!!!
if you visit his Elance Feedback profile and scroll all the way to the end you will notice TWO bids he put up:
#1 "Web Programming pdf to html conversion Beaux US$1,500.00"
AND...
#2 "Application Development PowerPC Emulator comsdev US$2,700.00"

If you visit both bids (bid 1 and bid 2 you will notice that he actually paid OTHER teams at Elance.com to do the dirty work for him.

I have very strong reason to suspect that he never wrote ANY part of any code of any kind! Instead, the people that actually STOLE the code from PearPC and PDF2HTML (read to verify) are the actual perpetrators!!!
How come nobody else established this connection?!

W.

Apparently, Arben Kryeziu is really no deveoper of any kind.
As people already suspected, he stole the PearPC code for CherryOS, he most likely stole Java code for his VX streamer (see posts above). And now I have reason to suspect that he also did not develop the bumpnetworks.com website.
He posted an outsourcing bid for one of his web site developments (bumpnetworks.com?). Search on that page for the string "Hello Arben Kryeziu" and "Hello Bumpnetworks" to confirm this. Now scroll to the winner's bid (will say "AWARDED" on the left). His location Donetsk, UA (Ukraine -> Russia). Now, go to bumpnetworks.com and follow the menu: "Company -> Partnerships." You will discover Site-Mechanics to be a partner. Go there and visit their clientele references. You will notice that most of the clients and work done was in Russia(n). Could it be that that guy developed bumpnetworks.com (and many other)?

That leaves us with the original question: what did he really develop or did he "outsource and share code" (LOL) for everything. He seems to be good at talking the language of "the suits" and seems to be better at being a manager than doing the actual work.

Well here is the answer, which is also my GRAND FINALE!!!
if you visit his Elance Feedback profile and scroll all the way to the end you will notice TWO bids he put up:
#1 "Web Programming pdf to html conversion Beaux US$1,500.00"
AND...
#2 "Application Development PowerPC Emulator comsdev US$2,700.00"

If you visit both bids (bid 1 and bid 2 you will notice that he actually paid OTHER teams at Elance.com to do the dirty work for him.

I have very strong reason to suspect that he never wrote ANY part of any code of any kind! Instead, the people that actually STOLE the code from PearPC and PDF2HTML (read to verify) are the actual perpetrators!!!
How come nobody else established this connection?!

W.

Apparently, Arben Kryeziu is really no deveoper of any kind.
As people already suspected, he stole the PearPC code for CherryOS, he most likely stole Java code for his VX streamer (see posts above). And now I have reason to suspect that he also did not develop the bumpnetworks.com website.
He posted an outsourcing bid for one of his web site developments (bumpnetworks.com?). Search on that page for the string "Hello Arben Kryeziu" and "Hello Bumpnetworks" to confirm this. Now scroll to the winner's bid (will say "AWARDED" on the left). His location Donetsk, UA (Ukraine -> Russia). Now, go to bumpnetworks.com and follow the menu: "Company -> Partnerships." You will discover Site-Mechanics to be a partner. Go there and visit their clientele references. You will notice that most of the clients and work done was in Russia(n). Could it be that that guy developed bumpnetworks.com (and many other)?

That leaves us with the original question: what did he really develop or did he "outsource and share code" (LOL) for everything. He seems to be good at talking the language of "the suits" and seems to be better at being a manager than doing the actual work.

Well here is the answer, which is also my GRAND FINALE!!!
if you visit his Elance Feedback profile and scroll all the way to the end you will notice TWO bids he put up:
#1 "Web Programming pdf to html conversion Beaux US$1,500.00"
AND...
#2 "Application Development PowerPC Emulator comsdev US$2,700.00"

If you visit both bids (bid 1 and bid 2 you will notice that he actually paid OTHER teams at Elance.com to do the dirty work for him.

I have very strong reason to suspect that he never wrote ANY part of any code of any kind! Instead, the people that actually STOLE the code from PearPC and PDF2HTML (read to verify) are the actual perpetrators!!!
How come nobody else established this connection?!

W.

A few sites:

• Rent-a-coder
• Scriptlance
• Elance
• ProjectsPool
• Web Developers Index

Basically, this sounds like eLance, with the addition of a QA middleman and an OSS repository for finished products. Frankly, I don't see how such a thing could take off. The QA middleman is going to add significantly to costs, and provides dubious value. Most QA problems lie in a sloppy specification to begin with, meaning that a 3rd party tester brought in at the end isn't likely to help much...

The hired gun is unlikely to undertake the project with the same care and nostalgia as yourself. But if you're clear on your requirements, you can get the hard/grunt/whathaveyou work done cheaply. And isn't the end result what really matters?

The approach isn't without risk, tho. Quality? Guarantee of original code? All bets are off.

Dude, check your email. There are programmers in India and Asia who are more than willing to build your website or application with "much quality programmatic work to enhance your business presence on the world wide web". Ten years wil seem like two months in no time flat.

Hrmm ... my understanding was that the AC was the "buyer" of services from two freelancers: logo design and website design.

That's what this page seems to suggest.

BACKGROUND: We're starting up a new company, Computer Exhaust Systems, wh ...

Have you considered doing any sort of contract/consulting type work? Sites like elance and Rent-a-Coder have many small, medium and large projects available. This is an interesting way to bid on projects that have been outsourced by other companies.

Check out Elance, maybe this is the future of software development? Just put the specs for your company's new project online and wait for some eager beavers from Bangalore to code it for 3 Rupees an hour. There will be work in producing specifications that will in some way corresponed to the desired outcome, something I've not seen at any company I've worked at for a long time now.

David

Combine the tools at elance with sourceforge (free or commercial)... and you're probably most of the way there...

At least that's what all the banner ads here tell me.

You could always hire a Canadian team - you'd get someone in your own basic timezone that speaks (more or less) the same language - and works for 63% of the money (last check of the currency value).

Of course - as always - your mileage may vary.

Is this business really so lucrative that people are willing to spend hours working on it?

They outsource. Plenty of work collecting addresses and sending emails in the admin and research markets of elance.com; plenty of work writing address harvesters and bulkmailers in the software & technology section.

Forgotten elancer

Check out allfreelance.com and especially eLance.com and guru.com. There is tons of contract programmer work out there.

A request-for-proposal I noticed on eLance.com is indicative of the unsavory taste I get in my mouth whenever discussing domain registrations.

• Inviting bids to create an application to run reports of WHOIS/internic directory by the expiration date. In other words, list the domains expiring in the next X number of days. User should be able to input the number of days in a field. A second report should run to check the above expiring domains to see if they are available to register. These available names should be listed by .com, .net or .org. Need user-friendly front end and documentation for a non-technical person to perform this function.

I'm not sure whether there's sufficient information on WHOIS to perform this task meaningfully. This requestor may be making a new service to "remind" people that their domain is up for renewal, perhaps to offer a lower price on the renewal than their last registrar, but I have a feeling it's more to find names to scalp.