Have you ever tried any outsourcing sites a kind of elance.com, scriptlance.com, getfreelancer.com, elance.com?

In my opinion, they come in help more to employers rather than of programmers. The one who look for a cheap outsourcing, these sites are the first stop where they can post their project for bid. (appologize me those who are familar with these systems, my indtoduction concerns people who don’t know.). So after the project submitted, programmers come to bid on for the project, specifing their asking price, working expirience, skills, and delivery time…

Next step is up to employer to select one of bidder, to develop his project. He/She credits some money on balance, what is called “escrow”, and the money get frozen, until the work done.

These “auction” sites become as guarantee key between employer and programmers, in case there is any dispute on project satisfaction.

Imagine, per example the softwares which are coded for about 5.000-10.000USD  might be outsourced for 10 times less, by Indians, Pakistanians, Romanians, and other 3rd world countries. Great deal to both sides, but mostly for webmasters who save a lot of money having their projects outsourced by other cheaper programmers.

Why I told it is bloody place to patricapate for new coming, because competition is too high, you will have to survive among other coders who have a lot of reviews and expirience behind their shoulders. The only one chance for beginners to play with  bidding, asking less money than others do, and get an attention of stingy employers, who pay more attention on prices than reputation. In this way beginner would win over and over, and become “trusted” coder on one of those websites.