Need to roll out a PayPal like app with 300 bucks (fixed price)
I followed the link thinking of some kind of challenge, what can I actually ship for 300 USD? That idea actually triggered a lot of thinking in my mind. - What would I do with that money and just a few days.
Then saw that it was just a poorly redacted (3 lines) cheap job post.
This is neither new to me or out of ordinary. I've been using elance.com for a while and the bogus things I see amaze me to the point where I can't figure out whether the project posts are true or a joke. Which brings me to ask whether elance, odesk and the rest of these are the best grounds for finding contract work. There's just so much low quality noise on these sites
There was a similarly outrageous listing on Elance a few months back: 'A website like Amazon but better' for $750-1000
This guy is not even one of the really bad ones. He has a 4.74 star rating. Heh.
About the Client
OpenGTS with Android clients No feedback given
To contractor: Usman A. May 2011 - Feb 2013 Fixed Price: $15.00 PhoneGap developer 2 stars
To contractor: Goutom Roy No feedback given Sep 2011 - Feb 2013 Fixed Price: $150.00 Facebook App developer 5 stars Nice provider. Very co-operative. Would like to have future work.
To contractor: Sukesh R. will work again Jul 2011 - Aug 2011 28 hrs @ $7.78/hr Billed: $216.54 Multi-Level Marketing MLM software program 5 stars Would like to work with him again. Nice Buyer!
To contractor: Annadurai M. Well done , will work again !
May 2011 - Aug 2011 Fixed Price: $666.67 Integrate with Facebook and Foursquare API 5 stars Excellent experience with the client. Very co-operative and supportive in explaining the flow. Timely payments for all the work done. Would love to work again in future.
Making an app that opens the PayPal.com or Dwolla.com homepage shouldn't be that hard. /s
Not that unusual. People just don't know what things cost.
I find it even more tragic to see situations like this:
https://www.freelancer.com/projects/PHP-Android/LOOKING-FOR-...
Here's a fellow who wants to build something difficult. He knows he needs an expert. He is on no account willing to pay for one.
Reading between the lines, I always suspect things like this arise from having been burned in the past. Looking at the several bids (none of which follow his instructions), I suspect he's about to get burned again.
For $300 I could make a front-end to PayPal’s API, which is kind of like PayPal.
First of all, this isn't really surprising considering if you spend any time (more than 20 seconds) on any Freelance sites you'll see that people want something creating for a price that, the majority of people in here will consider ridiculous.
Anyway someone should just sell them: http://www.alstrasoft.com/epay_enterprise.htm
I'm surprised there are no bids yet. There's always someone willing to take these things on, impossible as they obviously are.
Planned Start Feb. 28 2013 Delivery Date March 31 2013
BECAUSE PAYPAL WAS MADE IN 1 MONTH BY 1 PERSON RIGHT ?
Hahhaha that's really hilarious.
Anotherstory like this one: http://www.webakery.asia/web-business-and-resources/
You could very easily get a paypal app built with a $300 budget. Of course, it wouldn't have any features, would be insecure, have a terrible design, etc.
Looking forward to his Joomla based Texas Poker app also :-/
Gigantic security breach in 3.. 2.. 1