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A comment on Ask HN : What Are the Alternatives to Upwork?.

Re:Ask HN : What Are the Alternatives to Upwork? by AznHisoka on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:19PM (#19576099)
Just to clarify, if you bid on a project, you need to pay? How much exactly? That sounds like a horrible policy.
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Re:Ask HN : What Are the Alternatives to Upwork? by hackermailman on Thursday April 04, 2019 @04:04PM (#19576516)
Explained here https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331700

Basically you need to buy tokens and use them for bidding, probably to cut down on people who bid for everything. These sites are all terrible anyway and I prefer collecting bountys for commits.

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Re:Ask HN : What Are the Alternatives to Upwork? by sillyguy123 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:45PM (#19576357)
They also made it impossible to work with someone more than a few times unless you pay extra
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