Don't sites like upwork do the same thing? The referrer is Upwork, the fee is whatever Upwork charges.
The only real difference is personal referral, but in that case, you'd probably want to actually know the person, and not have a huge network. This plays into whatever developer review systems sites like Upwork have.
Yeah, Upwork is terrible, but that's because it is trying to compete on scale and price.
It seems the idea you have is a way to pass on high-quality projects that you'd otherwise take, to someone you know and can vet. You'd likely have someone in mind already, versus having it be a huge network of other people.
Unless you wanted to hire someone who administers this group, and keeps it close-knit so that people don't dump crap projects onto good workers, or good projects to crap workers, I don't see how this can work. I don't see it as being able to grow very much besides a group of friends or former colleagues.
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Don't sites like upwork do the same thing? The referrer is Upwork, the fee is whatever Upwork charges.
The only real difference is personal referral, but in that case, you'd probably want to actually know the person, and not have a huge network. This plays into whatever developer review systems sites like Upwork have.
Not sure if Upwork does it, but Upwork is the antithesis of the type of network that I am interested in building.
The projects you get are usually bottom of the barrel.
I have no interest in those types of projects.
Yeah, Upwork is terrible, but that's because it is trying to compete on scale and price.
It seems the idea you have is a way to pass on high-quality projects that you'd otherwise take, to someone you know and can vet. You'd likely have someone in mind already, versus having it be a huge network of other people.
Unless you wanted to hire someone who administers this group, and keeps it close-knit so that people don't dump crap projects onto good workers, or good projects to crap workers, I don't see how this can work. I don't see it as being able to grow very much besides a group of friends or former colleagues.
Yeh this is exactly the problem I am trying to solve.
Not quite sure how to do that though, and if it is even possible.