[CM30]

Well, I guess journalism needs a way to be profitable again, and creators in general need a way to sell their work without requiring long term subscriptions or ads. But given the many, many companies who've tried to fix this issue (by allowing users to pay for certain bits of content via microtransactions or bundling subscriptions together ala Blendle), I'm not sure what the answer would be.

I also feel game development needs a way for creators to commission help with various aspects of the process too. Oh sure, there's the odd forum where you can pay for graphics assets or music, but what if your problems are code related? Or game design based? It's a lot harder to request that sort of thing online, let alone find a way to pay for it. Where can I say, hire a level designer or game programmer independently of a studio?

As far as I can tell, nowhere, which makes it awfully hard when I'm stuck and just need a bit of help to finish a mostly complete project.

Anyone who solves that would get a lot of my money, I'll say that much.

[herbst]

What you describe were by far my favorite kind of jobs on Upwork. People who have a idea what they are doing but stuck with individual questions.

Upwork is by far not optimal but you can easily find talent for quick questions there.