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What others have said... plus:
* It's become very easy + cheap to post a project on these sites. So the sites fill up with thousands of tentative projects, from buyers who don't really know what they want and don't care much about the outcome. The "real" projects get swamped and unless you check each site multiple times per day, they very quickly end up a long way down any result lists.
* "Real" projects tend to be posted by people who know what they're doing and how to do it, and who've been doing it for years. They will have built up networks of people they know and trust, and they either go direct to them or offer "Private" auctions to just those invited bidders.
* Auction sites are cheap for small projects. But once you get above a certain size, they can become very expensive indeed, for both buyer and seller. A fixed-price $500 job is worth bidding on - but when you need a 20-strong team for a year, it's cheaper to go down the traditional agency route.
* Big projects tend to be started by big companies. They will have HR departments, preferred-supplier lists, suitability requirements, plus a whole raft of legislation and tax considerations to worry about. Picking up an un-identifiable individual via an auction site is so far off their modus operandi as to be unthinkable for them.
There's not actually any reason why teams can't be composed of remote-working individuals, even across time-zones. It can be done, if you pick freelancers with the appropriate skills and motivation. In fact it can be an extremely efficient way of working - I've built projects myself as a buyer by outsourcing very specific tasks to developers across the globe. If co-ordinated well, they don't need to communicate and there is zero interruption + distraction. But you need very good specifications!
In working through these sites over a long period, I've come across some really big projects. Some were, as above, highly compartmentalised, and I contributed a small cog in a big wheel. Others were very closely managed. Most, though, start off as a small - even tiny - task but then morph - off the original site - into something very much larger. The sites will all have rules about not taking work off-site, and definitely discourage (often with good reason) users from doing this (lack of financial escrow being the main one). However depending on the situation it's certainly possible to do so without infringing T+Cs and I've had long-term clients who originally "found" me through one or other of the type of sites you mention, and which have been financially very lucrative. Don't discount those "micro" projects, they may be the tip of an iceberg.
Freelancing since 1995, since 2000 nearly all my paid work has been sourced via job auction sites. I was top-ranked UK developer on (the original) Rent-A-Coder site for quite a while, and in 2009 came top in the UK-wide BT-sponsored Remote Employment Awards in the Freelance Consultant category. Although now semi-retired, I continue to get some work via these sites - and by (importantly!) referrals from old clients I picked up there.
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i am a software developer in Visual basic 6.0. i want to know that may i need any licencee from microsoft to develop any application in vb 6. if yes, please let me inform that from where i can can purchase this paper licence, because microsoft has already stopped the services from vb 6.
please give me the answer
thanks in advance
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VB 6.0 is long dead so I doubt that Microsoft would care what you developed with it. You should also be aware that no business is likely to want to buy applications developed in such an old and unsupported language.
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Hi
I've working alone in my web business for quite long, and I'm willing to start a bigger project that will need to involve more coders.
I hire frelancer from time to time, but I will need now more than one coder and designer working together in the same project. What could be the better way to manage this team of remote workers? is there any web solutions to manage that? How can I do it knowing that they will not steal the project?
Thank you!
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Mike Dev Br wrote: How can I do it knowing that they will not steal the project?
You and they must work in a jurisdiction where legal contracts can be enforced.
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Mike Dev Br wrote: How can I do it knowing that they will not steal the project?
Don't do it in:
China
India
Vietnam
Etc.
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I work a lot with indians. Its a full qualified and less expensive labor.
But I've not worked in a full project with them, just smaller jobs.
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try projectlocker.com it's easy and full of features
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Thanks. I'll take a look.
But is there a way to not allow the workers to download files locally on this solution?
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If that is the case you may need to see if you can provide with Virtualization from your own network and tools that prevent copying content to local desktops.
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Check out CloudForge. It supports both svn and git for scm. The basic version is free and allows unlimited users and private repos. The paid version has access control and permissions. It sounds like that is what you are looking for? It also has an Agile tracker and other tools for project management. Hope this helps.
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well you need to find people who are into this as much as you are i am also in same kind of trouble i am also starting an e commerce startup but i am also short on work force if you like you can give me an email on rahulloyal@hotmail.com so we can see if we can help each other
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You want make a website same as given link or The given link is a part of your business.
Sankarsan Parida
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Very first thing you need is a good business plan. What you planning to do?
modified 20-Sep-20 21:01pm.
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Howdy-howdy!
I've recently released a 1.0 version of the project I've been busy with for the past 1.5 years and would like to have another set of eyes to look at what I've done here.
HgLab is a self-hosted Mercurial server and code collaboration plaform which targets primarily Microsoft-centric software development companies. Basically, it's an "on-premises BitBucket".
Any feedback would be much appreciated:
http://hglabhq.com
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I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for me to join this group.
I have been learning python for about 4 months now and i have already mastered a lot as far as the language is concern.
I am learning how to code, firstly because i love coding and i like to do stuffs.
secondly, i with to start a small company after learning how to code
I am learning python very broadly, meaning i am not concentrating on a single section. I wish to know the language and be able to apply it to any location in the field of tech.
i Need some advise on how, and what python can help me setup a business?
please just honest replies please
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Richard8021 wrote: how, and what python can help me setup a business?
It is most unlikely that Python can help you set up a business. Starting in business you first need to find an idea that you can market and people will pay for. It could be a manufactured product, food that is grown, or some type of service, but you need the idea and a business plan first.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Establish a business to analyze local market conditions, write project proposals
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Richard8021 wrote: and what python can help me setup a business?
A business is selling either a product and/or a service.
You must come up with the idea then do some work towards creating the product and/or service. Then you must sell either the product and/or service to someone or even sell the idea to someone.
Python, or any programming language can be used to create the product, to create the service, to manage the business and/or to manage the service. It can also be used to create a demonstration which represents how the product and/or service would work if it was fully implemented.
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Please delete my account.
My email was ALWAYS spammed by your newsletter, no matter how often i tried to get rid off it.
I cant find the delete my account section here...
Please, DELETE ME COMPLETELY from here, thanks
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You can turn off the newsletter and email report in your account options.
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Hi friends, I'm new bee here and just start my own business as an High accuracy RTK GPS product provider. My target customers are natural resources, agriculture, constructions and energy companies. My first issue is how to structure a business letter to introducing myself(As my company) to my potential customers.
My second issue is my Website www.southcompass.com. I'm not sure if I have list too many products that I can offer and not de-scripted clear enough to viewers.
Please leave your suggestions or comments here or email me(email address on my website)
Regards
Yi
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Simple question...Is Microsoft Security Essentials sufficient AV protection on development workstaions used to compile and sign executables?
One of my biggest fears has always been that a system gets compromised and we unwittingly send out a batch of infected updates.  I am currently in a situation where a customer's AV identified 5 of our executables as being infected and quarantined them. In trying to resolve the situation, their network administrator asked for those files as a zipped email attachment which I sent. She promptly replied that the attachment had been stripped due to detection of a virus! I have checked these files with both MSE and AVG with no problem. I have applied for an evaluation of the AV the customer is using (lightspeed) both to replicate the issue, and to find out if the claim is legitimate but am still waiting. BTW, any executable we ship is digitally signed.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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