Taking on the BIG guys

[smmirza]

Hey guys,
After devoting hundreds of hours learning PHP, CSS and HTML I have finally launched a website to take on the big freelance sites like freelancer.com and upwork.com. Really pumped up to see what the reaction will be from the freelancer community. My site zerolancer.com cuts out the middle man by not charging any fees and only allowing American freelancers in. It is still in the beta stage but I am committed to take on the BIG guys and failure is not an option!
Check it out: http://www.zerolancer.com and let me know your thoughts!

 

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[Mr.Chaos]

Hey guys,
After devoting hundreds of hours learning PHP, CSS and HTML I have finally launched a website to take on the big freelance sites like freelancer.com and upwork.com. Really pumped up to see what the reaction will be from the freelancer community. My site zerolancer.com cuts out the middle man by not charging any fees and only allowing American freelancers in. It is still in the beta stage but I am committed to take on the BIG guys and failure is not an option!
Check it out: http://www.zerolancer.com and let me know your thoughts!

Looks good I signed up will report back!

 

[Concept]

From first glance, the site looks good.

My site zerolancer.com cuts out the middle man by not charging any fees

How are you planning to make money from this?

 

[JokerCrazyBeatz]

I like this

 

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[gostorm21]

When you first sign up for an account, the notification says "Welcome to AceMyHomework!". A quick google search reveals that zerolancer and AceMyHomework are basically *exactly* the same, down to the names of the front page testimonies. Did you build both? Or did you copy someone else's?

 

[InformationH]

You're missing an n on "when" in your quote

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[Vigilante]

When you first sign up for an account, the notification says "Welcome to AceMyHomework!". A quick google search reveals that zerolancer and AceMyHomework are basically *exactly* the same, down to the names of the front page testimonies. Did you build both? Or did you copy someone else's?

Did you copy the code from AceMyHomework? Seems like a cut and paste.

 

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[smmirza]

Did you copy the code from AceMyHomework? Seems like a cut and paste.

Yep I built that one as well. This one is based on a freemium model whereas the other one is an escrow site but targets students as well. Thanks for catching that I will update the code.

 

[smmirza]

When you first sign up for an account, the notification says "Welcome to AceMyHomework!". A quick google search reveals that zerolancer and AceMyHomework are basically *exactly* the same, down to the names of the front page testimonies. Did you build both? Or did you copy someone else's?

From first glance, the site looks good.



How are you planning to make money from this?

Well I really have not thought that part through. Might add pay only addon features once it gets traction.

 

[PTP]

So are the testimonials made up?

Also, I'm sorry but I don't find it believable that during the "hundreds of hours" of coding you never once stopped to think about monetization.

Not thinking about how you get paid may have been a *slight* oversight.

 

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[InformationH]

Terms of use also referances "scholar"

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[Yoda]

Something smells here.

Copied code, highlighting an American focus yet Twitter account is almost entirely foreign? I don't see any authenticity here.

No thanks.

 

[458]

Hey guys,
After devoting hundreds of hours learning PHP, CSS and HTML I have finally launched a website to take on the big freelance sites like freelancer.com and upwork.com. Really pumped up to see what the reaction will be from the freelancer community. My site zerolancer.com cuts out the middle man by not charging any fees and only allowing American freelancers in. It is still in the beta stage but I am committed to take on the BIG guys and failure is not an option!
Check it out: http://www.zerolancer.com and let me know your thoughts!

Why would i want to hire American freelancers? There so lazy and all they do is complain. I can get a Filipinia for a quarter of the cost which will work twice as hard..

 

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[mws87]

Hey guys,
After devoting hundreds of hours learning PHP, CSS and HTML I have finally launched a website . . .

Yep I built that one as well. This one is based on a freemium model whereas the other one is an escrow site but targets students as well. Thanks for catching that I will update the code.

Hmm . . .
—Devotes hundreds of hours to coding, yet comes out with a result that is similar to another site . . .
—Claims he built the other site, which has an escrow model and likely makes revenue, yet never thought about how he was going to monetize second site . . .

Either you just lifted the other site, which—obviously—you did, or your hundreds of hours of coding went into designing the actual template for AceMyHomework . . . In which case you wouldn't have a problem designing an entirely new site. And, also interesting that your contact info for Zerolancer is the same for Acemyhomework. Yes, I know, you did both sites, but your registration for Zerolancer shows that you're in Wisconsin, not Arizona.

A for effort, though?

 

[healthstatus]

It can't be copied, it says at the bottom that would be "Bad Karma"

as somebody that has spent a lot of money on outsourcing,

• American only makes no sense to me,
• you haven't described in any way shape or form how I interact, other than chat with developers,
• is this programming only, or graphics, or database design, or virtual assistants, data entry, research, analytics?
• is there any project management?
• escrow?
• do you facilitate disputes?
• what am I signing up for?
• your terms and conditions are obviously for the original tutoring site

how are you going to "take on" the big boys with no monetization plan? if you can attract a few thousand outsourcers, and few thousand buyers, then what? How do your servers get paid for? What about bandwidth uploading large project specs?

 

[theag]

You should have thought this through better before investing so much time in it.

Next idea.

 

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[mws87]

You should have thought this through better before investing so much time in it.

Next idea.

Your cut & paste game must be speedy as hell.



jk