Re:Ask HN: Co-Ops for Developers?
by jules on Thursday December 09, 2010 @05:21PM
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That's an awesome idea, using a kind of market to decide the price/profit. You need some kind of reputation to make this work, you don't want any fool bidding and then not doing the work.
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It's a design I've been tinkering with for while and have a bunch of notes about. Reputation would be handled by a transparent history of all projects worked on.
The profit-sharing design does not prevent collusion. E.g., if there are a glut of programmers and a shortage of artists in the collective, then two may collude to submit and share a low programmer bid and a high artist bid (and vice versa on another project).
Collectives are hard and are subject to many problems that the free market does not suffer.