Hi, I get a few questions about start up freelance site. How to start a freelance site? How much money is needed to start up How much money is needed to mange it Where to find the freelance script. Is that possible for one person to mange freelance site as part time at start up David
The problem with any site, is not maintaining it, most modern web applications require little or no maintenance at all. The problem is marketing there's too much competition out there and it's not that easy to get your product across. The startup fee (being how big it might be), it will never match the time and money required to get the site up and running in a profitable manner. You could easily buy a 100$ script that does just that, but I assure you that if such script exists with that sort of price you'd most definitely find another 1,000 webmasters trying to do exactly what you're trying to do. Be creative, come up with things that haven't yet been done, you'd have no competition (at least at first)
Making a site is not a difficult task but bringing traffic and ranking in search engine matters more than that.
As a freelancer I want to ask why I would need another website full of people who will compete with me for 30% of my price , as well as with buyers without any serious money. I hope what I wrote you above will give you sortoclue.
just go to elance or scriptlance and post a project that you want to start a site like elance or scriptlance and your set. Was this a serious question?
"go to elance or scriptlance and post a project that you want to start a site like elance or scriptlance and your set." I am not sure if it's legal, at first by common sense For example Rentacoder will ban you for that 100%.
You can't simply clone a site, yes that is illegal and against copyright laws, but you can use the concept of giving people a place where they can discuss and compete for projects without copying or cloning any site.
Cloning scripts is 100% legal, as long as you don't steal the idea completely.. Directly stealing source code, however, isn't.
I wouldn't call 20-30 competitors so saturated niche make it more niche, make it more worthwhile for coders (that way you will get fewer projects done but for big money - easier to handle), and in the same time giving more trust to buyers. Also not free but paid absolutely in order to feed out $10 clients and scummers as coders, they simply will not appear then.