[somecanuck]

Are you referring to reverse-auction programming sites? There's plenty of those to be found.

I do not have a favorable opinion of most of them, and that's because they list the bid amount and bid text. It ends up becoming a race to undercut each other, to the point where I have seen a prject with a $10 USD bid that would take me 10 hours.

I frequent Guru.com to pick up small side projects here and there. It does not list the bid amounts, lists the country of origin (for both employers and freelancers), and uses an escrow service.

[Beanblabber]

I was thinking along the lines of free.

[somecanuck]

When you consider the aforementioned $10 USD for 10 hours, and the fact that Guru.com takes 7-15% of the fee, it's practically free.. :)

What would be the motivation to code a product for someone else for free? Especially considering they might profit off of it, or that you will likely hand over the rights to it afterwards. I'll admit that I am interested in coding fun projects, but that's questionable.