28 places to find the worst freelance jobs.<p>Seriously, I've looked at all these over the past 3 months but all those sites provide me with is mild amusement and a growing library of screenshots of ridiculous projects.<p>Most recent but illustrative one: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/04jtax1gozu9heg/2015-06-28%20at%2020.46.png?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/04jtax1gozu9heg/2015-06-28%20at%20...</a> — An AirBnB clone in Rails, payments in UK & India, "one small tweak" (oh, I love mystery!) and a project budget of $250-750
I'd argue that none of these are a way to get decent work. The best way to get the best kind of work is to find it locally. Go to local meetups, do some talks, talk about the things you know about and have done and educate others on it. You'll soon get your name out there and be approached by people for help.<p>Do things, tell people.
How is there 28 freelance websites and <a href="https://gun.io/" rel="nofollow">https://gun.io/</a> wasn't mentioned? I would have thought that to be one of the more popular sources for freelance work.
The fundamental issue with these sites is that they attract a global labor pool to openly compete with one another for extremely price sensitive clients without the protection of artificial price controls.
I'd like more information about how small law partnerships are formed and managed internally. That seems like the best organisational strategy for talented developers to emulate.<p>Any well produced X-Y-Z-llp site should be able to generate as much business opportunity as these freelancer operations, but with the added mutual benefit of being able to create lasting business relationships.
Remote Work resources like WeWorkRemotely.com definitely will gain more and more popularity during time.<p>I see more and more companies hiring remotely. It's big cultural change, and that's cool!