Comments on: The economics of working with Rent A Coder http://sudhanshuraheja.com/2007/11/economics-of-working-with-rent-coder/ By Sudhanshu Raheja Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:39:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vikram http://sudhanshuraheja.com/2007/11/economics-of-working-with-rent-coder/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 vikram Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:21:42 +0000 http://sudhanshuraheja.com/wordpress/?p=737#comment-1316 From my personal experience RAC is a very risky place to work in. I bid an extremely low price for a big project hoping to get a good rating and more subsequent projects. However, the way that it turned out was that the buyer kept on expanding the scope of the project and it would never end. Frustrated I put the project into arbitration, but lost because of some feature that I tried to do but was not able to do completely. Overall, I lost about a months effort to nothing and most probably the buyer got a lot more than the initial project work for free. On RAC, you need to be very careful about clueless buyers who will make completing projects a pain. I would advise coders to stick with an hourly payment cycle on something like odesk.com and stay away from RAC. From my personal experience RAC is a very risky place to work in. I bid an extremely low price for a big project hoping to get a good rating and more subsequent projects. However, the way that it turned out was that the buyer kept on expanding the scope of the project and it would never end. Frustrated I put the project into arbitration, but lost because of some feature that I tried to do but was not able to do completely. Overall, I lost about a months effort to nothing and most probably the buyer got a lot more than the initial project work for free.

On RAC, you need to be very careful about clueless buyers who will make completing projects a pain.

I would advise coders to stick with an hourly payment cycle on something like odesk.com and stay away from RAC.

]]> By: Sudhanshu http://sudhanshuraheja.com/2007/11/economics-of-working-with-rent-coder/comment-page-1/#comment-1315 Sudhanshu Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:00 +0000 http://sudhanshuraheja.com/wordpress/?p=737#comment-1315 You really got me there :D<br/><br/>Anyways, did you try and analyze if the project was really worth 2 months of time because you know clients usually just say that yes, yes the project would take a max of two months.<br/><br/>About the website clone, writing a curl statement to fetch the complete website takes about 10 minutes. You can spend the next 3 hours 50 minutes redecorating it. You really got me there :D

Anyways, did you try and analyze if the project was really worth 2 months of time because you know clients usually just say that yes, yes the project would take a max of two months.

About the website clone, writing a curl statement to fetch the complete website takes about 10 minutes. You can spend the next 3 hours 50 minutes redecorating it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://sudhanshuraheja.com/2007/11/economics-of-working-with-rent-coder/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 Anonymous Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:14:00 +0000 http://sudhanshuraheja.com/wordpress/?p=737#comment-1314 I just saw a bid request for 2 months of work go for $250! That's $0.66 per hour if you work 40-hour weeks (after RAC's huge fee). Are you gonna repeat your claim that people aren't coding for under $1 per hour?<br/><br/>Here it is:<br/><br/>http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=913845<br/><br/>2 months at $25/hour would be $8000. I wonder if anybody even bid half that high.<br/><br/>The same buyer had only one other bid that was publicly viewable in his history: A request to clone a website. It went for $100, and it DIDN'T get reposted. It would have to be done in half a day to be worth $25/hour. I just saw a bid request for 2 months of work go for $250! That’s $0.66 per hour if you work 40-hour weeks (after RAC’s huge fee). Are you gonna repeat your claim that people aren’t coding for under $1 per hour?

Here it is:

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=913845

2 months at $25/hour would be $8000. I wonder if anybody even bid half that high.

The same buyer had only one other bid that was publicly viewable in his history: A request to clone a website. It went for $100, and it DIDN’T get reposted. It would have to be done in half a day to be worth $25/hour.

]]> By: Vercingetorix http://sudhanshuraheja.com/2007/11/economics-of-working-with-rent-coder/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Vercingetorix Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:30:00 +0000 http://sudhanshuraheja.com/wordpress/?p=737#comment-1312 But sometimes it's still worth the 48% :) But sometimes it’s still worth the 48% :)

]]> By: rasta http://sudhanshuraheja.com/2007/11/economics-of-working-with-rent-coder/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 rasta Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:08:00 +0000 http://sudhanshuraheja.com/wordpress/?p=737#comment-1313 cool man, never knew this kind of thing existed, and even when i did, after a month of the post.....am i going insane!<br/>more once i visit the site... cool man, never knew this kind of thing existed, and even when i did, after a month of the post…..am i going insane!
more once i visit the site…

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