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Your Global Workforce!
Imagine a site where you could define a project, application, or task you wanted to have completed and a global workforce of talent would bid on doing the project on an hourly or fixed cost basis. You then get to review their qualifications, interview them, and see what others have said about the projects they have done for them. You select your contractor to complete the project, and while they are working on your task you get screen shots of their computer screen as they go, so you know they are on task.
I have been telling a lot of people about this site. oDesk has opened up a world of possibilities for me. Here is are some examples of some tasks I had completed:
1. Identify all the flights available from British Airways can put them in a specified html format for tripzam.com. For $2.22 per hour, my contractor in the Philippines completed the task in short order. See the final results of the British Airways destinations.
2. Create a php script that shows my friends for afftwitlist.com so that I could show what people who are on the affiliate twitter list are saying on the site. Cost, $54 fixed price.
If you can define the task, you can find someone at oDesk to complete it for you. oDesk charges your credit card and handles paying the workers. They also have some more advanced features for bug reports, and code checking, if you are running a more sophisticated programming outfit.
Like 99Designs.com for logo design, oDesk has been an eye opener! Check it out!
99designs, and the similar designoutpost, are very cool ways to get some web art done well at a low cost.
i had not heard of oDesk, love adding it to my mental list that is growing. thanks for the oDesk tip.
while at ASW in Vegas earlier this week, i learned of Mechanical Turk, owned by Amazon. the wiki page about it is a good intro to how these crowdsourcing mating places work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
these outsourcing opps seem to be proliferating, we need a segmented guide or list somewhere. something like… (not a bad idea for an affiliate site, reviews, comparisons, descriptions, etc…)
graphics: 99designs, designoutpost
programming: oDesk
simple repetitive tasks: mechanical turk
That is a really good idea Pat. The Mechanical Turk is interesting because you can add it into your programming via API and have human processed activities as part of the application.
Love to hear what you think of oDesk after you have tried it!
Adam