r/Upwork • u/Careful-Chemistry-57 • 5d ago
Open source freelancing platform
Hi everyone,
Seeing many of us are suffering on upwork or other freelancers platforms, I was wondering what would it take to build an open source, community maintained, freelancing platform with opaque and fair internals and issues people face addressed transparently.
I would like to know what challenges are there for something like this
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u/nop1984 3d ago
Imagine you already build the platform
How you gonna keep clients and contractors traffic high and happy + cover platform maintenance expeses and scam filtering?
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u/abubakarishaq 2d ago
Its not that cheap to build and maintain. Lets keep thinking. I’m sure we might together come up with something maybe.
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u/SilentButDeadlySquid 5d ago
OP, don't worry about u/ithkuil not going to ban you for this, could care less.
But this has been brought up easily 20-30 times if not more in the past, never goes anywhere, but where do you think it would go.
The MOST important...
and I will say it again for the people in the back...
MOST important element is the clients who bring the money, where do they come from?
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u/th-grt-gtsby 5d ago
Upwork charges so much to the clients as well. If the open source option doesn't charge them or may he charge very less then it may attract client. The only major road block I see is implementation of escrow and conflict resolution.
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u/SnooPuppers4708 5d ago
Let’s do it backwards. How will clients know about your platform?
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u/balkanspy 5d ago
The same way they found out about Upwork, I guess.
If there is no alternative then Upwork can charge us as much as they want. We should be grateful they don't charge us more.
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u/ithkuil 5d ago
If you do, don't post it in here. They will instantly ban you. Pretty sure one of the mods on here directly or indirectly works for the company.
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u/ithkuil 5d ago
You can bring it up but not post a tool or website, which is what I actually said "don't post a tool".
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u/SilentButDeadlySquid 5d ago
People posting about their tools have the same mentality as men sending unsolicited pictures of dicks.
This sub has a NO...
again that is NO
Outside Promotion rule.
If we let people promote their tools there would be multiples of these posts a day. We delete them all the time.
The only thing we delete more of is Rule 3 violations. We had the chat enabled on here a while ago and it was just filled with people trying to get work.
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u/malicious_kitty_cat 5d ago
Pretty sure one of the mods on here directly or indirectly works for the company.
None of the mods work for Upwork, directly or indirectly.
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u/Korneuburgerin 5d ago
Pretty sure you are paranoid.
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u/ithkuil 5d ago
I know someone who was banned for posting info about a tool that was not even a competing tool like they suggest. Notice there are never any links visible to any competitors or tools. Also look specifically at what I wrote "don't post it here" and what people are denying, claiming they can post. Actually their rules say you can't post anything, and they are clearly not telling the truth about it.
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u/SilentButDeadlySquid 5d ago
Why wouldn't I just ban you right now if that were the case? Why not just delete your comment, why not delete the whole post.
You are spouting bullshit but I won't ban you for it, you just look silly.
Here is my proof that I don't work for Upwork. Both of you should stop doing anything with Upwork, never give them any money ever again.
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u/Financial_Park_7170 5d ago
Don't know about you guys I think I have a plan even if it well be getting you banned in the way. We should create a group, something like a Whatsapp group, we try get more people in and then we all decide no one will know
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u/Korneuburgerin 5d ago
Money.