Comments on: The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder

By: Easy Money Making Ideas – these will Make You Money

Easy Money Making Ideas – these will Make You Money — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:13:45 +0000

[...] The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder « Max Klein [...]

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.

By: some-east-coder

some-east-coder — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:09:01 +0000

“Don’t expect a long-term relationship with any coder on RaC. It does not work that way. RAC is where people go when they are between jobs or need extra cash, it’s not a livelihood. It’s just a stepping stone for most people. So don’t give any concessions thinking you will have a long-term relationship. You likely won’t.”dont agree to this. ive done several cheap first projects until the buyer hired me on monthly basis.. i’ve quit RAC and works for him now.

By: C++

C++ — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:10:26 +0000

I am skilled C++ programmer, but when I look at RaC bids, I am stumbled with how diverse are the skills required for each individual bid, so I wonder how people manage to make use of it. For me, this jumping from thing to thing doesn’t seem worth doing. I prefer longer projects and relationships.glebas