richiepear

You should try Upwork Pro - everyone is pre-screened and you can tell the recruiter exactly what you want

https://www.upwork.com/pro/hire-developers/

hmmm, maybe I am missing something but this just looks like they are promoting freelance writers - see for yourself here

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s212/sh/d4ee10d0-2c4c-4c5b-8d...

Good idea - right now, the best proxy for this is to look at the % of clients who re-hire and their comments. While I agree that 5 star systems across the Internet are inflated, I always use rehire % and really scour the comments when hiring on Elance.

I've hired on oDesk and Elance and agree that managing remote workers is a skill and you need to be on the look out for scammers. I do all my jobs on Elance because they have a good project based setup where you only pay when a milestone is completed. I hire all my freelancers on a project basis 1st and then shift them to hourly if they are reliable. I've also found that Elance to have more US based freelancers to choose from.

One thing that bugs me is that none of them have good apps - you would think they would figure that out!

Digg was built on Elance - http://www.centernetworks.com/future-of-web-apps-kevin-rose/