Cool idea. Reminders me of Fancy Hands' integration with Asana.
I imagine many coding tasks require access to an existing codebase. How do developers get access and how do you protect a customer's existing intellectual property?
I have been using Codersclan a couple of times last year, and I can assure they provide quality work. Don't know if I will use this feature but give them a try.
@drorco On the dev side, are people being paid $50 or $100 to write useful or production-ready code for the client or just to give guidance? Seems like a mixture of both from signing up as a dev and looking at the tasks that are posted.
If people are meant to write useful or production-ready code, $50 seems really low for the amount of work a few of these people are asking. I know it's early and the amount and breadth of tasks is low, I'm mostly wondering if you look at CodersClan as a better, faster eLance or something entirely different
@zackshapiro Great question! Although we do receive some tasks requesting guidance, the majority of the tasks are for writing production-ready code.
I believe what you're referring to are tasks of which customers don't necessarily know their appropriate price. In such cases, the customer starts with an initial price and after receiving feedback from coders on the price, we increase it so that it is acceptable for both the customer and the coder.
We focus on providing a seamless experience for both our task creators and coders rather than on cheap prices.
By the way, the tasks you're seeing here are only our crowd-sourced tasks which are usually guidance-related. We have a section for private tasks that sometimes requires actual server access and this is only visible to our dedicated coders.
@zackshapiro@drorco Great idea. With respect to crowd-sourced tasks and those exclusive to "dedicated coders", what is the typical number of solutions you receive? What happens to the devs / solutions who don't get chosen? Are your devs signed up today more domestic or offshore?
@zackshapiro@kicksopenminds Hey Taylor, great questions! I wrote quite a thorough reply, accidentally clicked out of the comments area and everything got delete :P
Going back to square one...
When it comes to Dedicated Tasks, only a single coder is assigned to your task, that coder provides you with the solutions needed to complete the task. Usually this will consist of 1 or 2 iterations.
If you're looking at Crowd-Sourced tasks then what usually happens is that one of the coders would provide a first solution and only if another coder thinks he/she can provide a better solution, they would bother to post their own solutions too.
Another thing is that the crowd-sourced channel is focused on the smallest code tasks that should usually take no longer than 1 hour to solve, this significantly reduces the risk for coders.
If several coders have been showing a lot of effort on a task, we do encourage the customer to either split the payment or tip the coder that that provided a somewhat useful solution.
We found that that this method increases the chances that only the best solutions are accepted and also quite fair for the other coders.
It's actually pretty interesting but we have quite a diverse selection of coders. Many from the US, Europe and Asia, can't really say any region is more dominant than the other.
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