[jwong_]

Yeah, Upwork is terrible, but that's because it is trying to compete on scale and price.

It seems the idea you have is a way to pass on high-quality projects that you'd otherwise take, to someone you know and can vet. You'd likely have someone in mind already, versus having it be a huge network of other people.

Unless you wanted to hire someone who administers this group, and keeps it close-knit so that people don't dump crap projects onto good workers, or good projects to crap workers, I don't see how this can work. I don't see it as being able to grow very much besides a group of friends or former colleagues.

[marcamillion]

Yeh this is exactly the problem I am trying to solve.

Not quite sure how to do that though, and if it is even possible.