LancersCafe is a new freelance and outsourcing portal for the Arab world, launched to manage the relation between companies and individuals who need to hire a freelancer to get a job done and the freelancers themselves.
The idea is one that has been applied globally a number of times by sites like RentACoder and Elance. LancersCafe brings the concept to the region.
The idea is pretty simple, a company needs a certain job done but they don’t have the need to hire a full-time employee for it, so they look at contracting someone to do that job for them. On the other hand, you have freelancers, people who take on individual projects, and who are always on the lookout for new projects they can take on to make their living.
LancersCafe aims to be a platform to connect the companies looking for people to take on certain jobs for them with the freelancers looking for those jobs, and to govern the whole relationship between them so that the projects goes as smoothly as possibly, reducing the possibility of any problems arising from either side throughout the project lifecycle.
The service is free for both companies (buyers) and freelancers (providers) to join. The buyers get to post their project for free, listing the skills they need, the timeline for their project, their budget range and other project requirements; Providers can build their profile and portfolio, search for projects and then send in their proposals, that the buyer can review, evaluate and negotiate, before making their choice.
LancersCafe also offers both buyers and providers special online training courses on the best way to use the system and get their work done online.
The site covers 175 specialties, starting from Data Entry and passing by programming, web design, article writing, graphic design, fashion design and up to Marketing, accountancy, engineering and landscaping and a lot of other professions.
LancersCafe was launched from Egypt, and is open for companies and freelancers from around the Middle East, offering companies the opportunity to get their work done cost-effectively, and freelancers the chance to find projects easily and make more money.
Moving the idea to the Arab world is cool! but the implementation was not impressive.
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this site redirects you to freelancer.com registration page , so it works as an affiliate for it , so its just cheating users . why I should sign up twice at freelancer.com , one directly and another one through lancerdace.com affiliation
Actually this is only for GAF project since we are still in the start we don't have enough projects yet to feed our website. I think when the idea start propagating more we will turn that off.
Thank you Kamel for you helpful response.
We are still in the beginning so don't expect to see something like the Giants who are working for years online. I think by the end of 2010 things will change
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I was sincerely looking in your site to hire a coder but it was acting as an affiliate. Seriously, dissappointing.
Btw, Mohammed, I got suggestions for you how to populate your site. Btw, send me a private email if you like some to hear some suggestions. wissam@yallaorder.com