| As a freelance developer, I deal with the typical feast & famine problem of projects. Some times during the year, I get lots of project requests and other times I get none. When I have lots, I leave a lot of money on the table because I usually am up to my ears and I don't want to take on any more nor do I want to hire someone. But when I am free, I have to start looking for projects again. Then it occurred to me that I would love to be able to pass along the excess projects I get, for a referral fee (say 5% of the value of the project). But the obvious issue with that is that I would need to have a constant network of developers with different skillsets that can competently complete those projects. So what I would like to do is develop a network that does two things. 1. Rewards you for passing along a project/client.
2. Manages the completion of those projects. So my questions to HN are:
1. Do you have excess projects that you get from time-to-time that you would be willing to pass along to a network like this?
2. Do you have projects that you would like completed where other marketplaces/platforms haven't worked well for you? If so, would you care to share your concerns.
3. Would you want to be a participant in this network to work on projects/gigs that are passed along to you? Another thing I was thinking is that say you have a project you want to pass along, but you want to project manage it (almost like being a product owner), then we could facilitate that for a higher fee than the 5%. All of this is obviously very immature, and still at the idea stage. I would love your feedback on everything, how I can improve the idea, what are things I am not considering, etc. |
The only real difference is personal referral, but in that case, you'd probably want to actually know the person, and not have a huge network. This plays into whatever developer review systems sites like Upwork have.