"But upwork is such a crap (in my experience as a client, for freelancers it must be horrors)... sadly all alternatives like guru or freelancer.com are as bad or even more" --- That's true!

Related links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839490 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839510

Other links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11807450 , http://fortune.com/2016/05/31/y-combinator-basic-income-oakl... , and http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/business/economy/why-a-uni...

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We should not aim to create a clone. We should aim to make something right, fair, and better - the way it should've been done in the first place.

Thanks to all those who made their comments here. I look forward to more comments in the coming hours and days! Let's keep this fire burning, so more people would see this!

Could you explain more? Platforms like Upwork serve as interface or broker between customers and workers. Are you referring to something different?

Upwork is a monolith. It's a broker but also holds the developer and customer data. Competing brokers cannot enter the market without having to ask developers and customers to duplicate their data.

If the developer had it's own service (like his personal website) that hold the list of services that he provides, his availability and general price. Then brokers could connect to this and match it with customer requests. Same on the other side, a customer should be able to submit his project proposal and let the various brokers pick it up and match the appropriate developers.

Could you explain more?

Encouraging transactions on their platform benefits the people too, since the platform offers some degree of protection to them.