[iDemonix]

I gave up with all of them. A friend of mine is using Upwork and Freelancer (awful) to find gigs, and he tried to get me involved so I could help him out with overspill. It seemed like you had to put ludicrously low rates to get terrible work, and despite paying peanuts, everyone expects amazing results.

I ditched it, joined some communities online, did a tiny bit of networking, and announced I was looking for work related to X - that was far more fruitful than sending 10 pitches a day for gigs on those sites and getting nothing in response because someone in India will do it for a dollar. Although I did love seeing the same projects re-appear a week later to fix the crap that their offshore team delivered.

[xrisk]

I'm from India and I'm horrified that so many people are willing to do work for nothing or next to nothing...

[yomansat]

I see... Thanks for sharing. I think what we seem to be after is contracting/consulting work rather than freelancing, the naming is what'll set the tone.