Comments on: The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder

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seo services — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:25:39 +0000

i am not satisfied that in India there is only good programmer of php
they are not as good in c++ as citizen of U.S and Europe

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By: Nnanna

Nnanna — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:37:20 +0000

Sound Advice…I stopped using RAC a few years ago, but may return using your advice as guidelines

By: Trent Hill

Trent Hill — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:34:39 +0000

This is a solid guide to using RentACoder, which is a very powerful tool for those who need programming services. Despite the personal failings of individual programmers on the site (which exists in any market)–the website pretty good job of managing the marketplace. Their ratings system helps buyers to find the best workers available.

By: Steroids Blog

Steroids Blog — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:06:28 +0000

I find it odd that any coder would not have his own web site based biz in this day and age.

By: dumdumdum

dumdumdum — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:15:19 +0000

@Michael M: Possible. I was thinking of places where there’s a long tail of “close but not close enough”‘s. Another way of thinking about it is that maybe “good vote/bad vote” works better as a rating. While a “7″ means different things to different people, “failed 40% of projects” is something more objective that buyers can interpret. But I’m already off topic with this.

By: Michael M

Michael M — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:47:19 +0000

Im guessing the reason people interpret a rating of 9 as a negative is because people (you included) rate everyone a 9 or a 10. If people would use the rating system as its intended, it would be a lot more accurate and trustworthy.

By: ZeusTheTrueGod

ZeusTheTrueGod — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:25:41 +0000

I am a programmer and I worked on opposite side. I am working on ODesk instead of rentacoder but that doesn’t matter.It was really helpful to me to read this post, and I have to say, that good specification – screenshots, prototypes, database scheme, and, much more important, test data in any excel-like format, will make your project more attractive to professional programmer and more distractive to unprofessional one.Professional programmer always program with passionated. Make a project more interesting to him. Programmer wants to make the product as good as possible, just be aware of that.And you have no guarantee that your project will be done and done in time.May be if you split your project in separate modules which can be easy combined and give each module to 2 or 3 different people which are unaware of each other you will get 2 benifits:1) more changes to get something working2) programmer can not treat you or fool you long enough.And,at last, 1 good programmer will make things much better than 10 junior programmers. High quality job deserves its money.

By: dumdumdum

dumdumdum — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:52:58 +0000

Hah, the fact that there are only 9 and 10 ratings made me compare RAC with school (the school system here also grades from 1 to 10). I guess the point where a 9 means you lose marks the end of school.