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Dominic Da Silva

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Rent-A-Coder

Posted: Jul 11, 2003 7:42 AM

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Along the same lines as eLance, a new online pay-for-code site is starting to make waves in the development community.
The site is Rent A Coder, and they are headquartered in Tampa.
They are a subsidiary of Exhedra, who also own Planet Source Code.
Althought the scale of projects is not a large as eLance (as yet), they seem to be getting good reviews.

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Re: Rent-A-Coder

Posted: Dec 25, 2003 12:57 AM

Posted by: Sergey Grachyov Posts: 3 / Nickname: takereal / Registered: Dec, 2003

Hello !

You compare RentACoder to Elance -
I want to add my 2cents :

I use only RentACoder to find new freelance projects since I discover it in February'2003 :
http://www.takereal.com/freelance/rating.asp

This site is eBay for contractors. It has many clones, but original is outstanding one:
1. 800+ open bid requests for today
2. no needs to pay subscription (like at Elance, Contracted Work, Telecommute-Jobs)
3. you can't see strange bids: "I can do it for 3$ in 0 days" (like at Scriptlance)

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Sergey.

Re: Rent-A-Coder

Posted: Dec 25, 2003 3:40 AM

Posted by: Matt Gerrans Posts: 1153 / Nickname: matt / Registered: Feb, 2002

Although, some of the requests look a little silly; this one for example seems like a lot of detail (just determining the requirements) and they want it for under $100:
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=109643

Project's Quality

Posted: Dec 25, 2003 1:46 PM

Posted by: Sergey Grachyov Posts: 3 / Nickname: takereal / Registered: Dec, 2003

1. This project doesn't have any bids for now. I suppose - this project will be cancelled on next week.
2. Before your bid accepted - you can post comments to software buyer about project's price.
Such as "I can complete this task for 500$, I am super-puper bla-bla-bla". Just leave "Bid Amount $" field blank.

And once again - I are you spend any money to see this silly project ?
But at eLance - you must pay for subscription. And who knows how many silly projects posted for eLance subscribes.

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Sergey.

Re: Project's Quality

Posted: Jan 10, 2004 12:28 PM

Posted by: Sergey Grachyov Posts: 3 / Nickname: takereal / Registered: Dec, 2003

You can see - Software Buyer choose coder. Winner's bid is 700$.

Rent-a-coder pricing

Posted: Jan 10, 2004 5:14 PM

Posted by: Matt Gerrans Posts: 1153 / Nickname: matt / Registered: Feb, 2002

Ah ha. I thought the "under $100" project type meant that they wouldn't pay more than $100. I guess they start out with a ridiculously low initial price in the hopes of getting low bids. $700 is probably not too bad for a couple weeks work by Kiev cost-of-living standards (I know Moscow and St. Petersburg have relatively high cost of living, but I'm guessing Kiev is not so bad).

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