Clients are fed up with broken promises and shoddy work from the hordes of "freelance" sites and low-cost development shops around the world. Similarly, the best Indie designers and developers struggle to be matched with great clients and differentiate themselves online.
Many have tried to fix this and some succeeded to an extend. The deeper issue with such an initiative is how can you maintain the quality, that you promised, over a period of time.
You have to be on it all the time and you cannot let anything on its own. A good developer may be over-worked and may not deliver on another project, whilst she did an awesome work on the earlier one.
Disclaimer for this plug: I'm one of the co-founder of http://lxidd.com/ and we have been trying to solve this problem at a larger scale and magnitude. We're opening up only to select Clients and only via referral and introductions.
Just curious, do you have a list of other websites that does similar things? This article has made me quite interested in it (i'm a developer) so I'd like to know more of that market. Thanks!
Many have tried to fix this and some succeeded to an extend. The deeper issue with such an initiative is how can you maintain the quality, that you promised, over a period of time.
You have to be on it all the time and you cannot let anything on its own. A good developer may be over-worked and may not deliver on another project, whilst she did an awesome work on the earlier one.
Disclaimer for this plug: I'm one of the co-founder of http://lxidd.com/ and we have been trying to solve this problem at a larger scale and magnitude. We're opening up only to select Clients and only via referral and introductions.