[narag]

Actually I met a guy that made easy money with one of these freelance sites where he was very reputable. I didn't understand it until I looked carefully at his responses to offers.

The key was that he had an extraordinary skill to translate the offer from ignorant, unrealistic, ludicrous, I-want-the-Moon expectations to a practical setup where the real work was to install an OSS PHP forum, apply some stock themes and program a couple of pages of functionality that wasn't out of the box.

He dressed this setup as matching, even exceeding expectations, and delivered ultra fast.

Do you think the customers were deceived? On the contrary, they were delighted and with reason.

The problem is that customers have little knowledge of how to describe their ideas, that they're (of course) in love with, and tend to present their requirements in a hyperbolic language so they seem to be asking for "a Facebook" for a hundred dollars.

[jrochkind1]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Being able to do that is a _huge_ skill.