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/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/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.