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Upwork just stole $10k from me

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342 points dustedcodes | 2 comments | 25 Feb 23 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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nmfisher ◴[25 Feb 23 10:36 UTC] No.34935554[source]▶
As a client, what are my alternatives to Upwork?
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bsaul ◴[25 Feb 23 10:51 UTC] No.34935624[source]▶
if you're in france and maybe europe malt is a good site
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benj111 ◴[25 Feb 23 11:32 UTC] No.34935823[source]▶
It would be helpful for downvoters to explain why this comment was down voted.

Is it not available in Europe? Is it not called malt? Is it a shitty product? Did the parent not capitalise France?

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1. Garlef ◴[25 Feb 23 13:06 UTC] No.34936373[source]▶
Malt requires freelancers to publicly state their daily rate in order to be listed for contracts where they don't serve as an intermediary. (At least that's how I read their terms.)

"Publicly" in the sense of: Can be found via google.

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2. benj111 ◴[25 Feb 23 14:54 UTC] No.34937111[source]▶
That's not necessarily a bad thing.

I'd rather go to a shop that lists it's prices.

If it drives more customers to the site, the contractors gain also.