Links To Freelance Sites

FreelanceDaddy: Links

A couple of links to freelance sites, money transfer services and other resources which can be very helpful in your freelance business.

It’s not just a random list of the freelance sites found all over the web - all the sites are reviewed and if they don’t provide quality job opportunities, they are removed immediately. For each approved site, there were a few ones that were rejected because of the unsatisfactory quality level of the services.

Free Freelance Sites
Paid Freelance Sites
Money Transfer and Withdrawal
Freelancer’s Tools
Freelance Site Owners

Free Freelance Sites

Because of the lack of paid subscription, they are the best place for people starting their freelancing career. The term “free” might be a bit misleading, but it relates to this lack of the subscription fee (deducted from your account even if no projects are won and money earned).

Services from this group take their fee when the project is awarded - so in case of a bad luck (not winning the bidding phase) we aren’t charged with any costs. It is very important for the freelancers with a little or no experience, as there’s no risk of losing their money invested in the costly subscription.

Recommended sites:

Established services, with a long online presence, trustworthy and proved to do a good job. Finding the work with their assistance is safe.

Large and attractive freelance board. Similar to ScriptLance, based on the same script. Over 300 projects posted daily.
> read GetAFreelancer review
Recently launched GetAFreelancer’s sister site for the European market.
One of the largest and well known freelance service boards with the many of projects posted daily - much more than 150.
> read ScriptLance review
The third of the most important freelance boards. Recommended for more experienced freelancers. Many projects and useful features.
> read RentACoder review
Marketplace for Joomla Mambo freelancers. Less projects posted (around 10-15 daily), but their budgets are very reasonable.
> read JoomLancers review
Another site worth recommending. There are less projects posted there, but competing should be easier, as it’s a relatively fresh site.
> read GetACoder review
Website with projects mainly for programmers. Less freelancers to compete with, but also less projects (just a few posted daily).
> read PHP-Freelancers review

Other sites:

Services with noticeably smaller number of offers posted, without any huge success so far but looking promising. Some day they can grow and become very attractive freelance markets.

Codelance: Reasonable number of projects.
BidAScript: Recently launched and quickly growing.
CGILance: Reasonable number of projects.
GloLance: Reasonable number of projects.
Drupalancers: Drupal projects.
OSCFeelancers: OSCommerce projects.
Freelancer Store: Reasonable number of projects.
OutsourceToday: Growing - more and more projects.
1st Choice Freelancer: Growing - more and more projects.
ProgramGurus: Just launched, 100% free.
Project4Hire: Growing number of projects.
Webmaster Projects: Recently launched and growing.
FreelanceWebMarket: Recently launched and growing.
AgoraXchange: Reasonable number of projects.
HireACoder: Recently launched and growing.
FreelancerSpace: Limited number of projects.
FreelanceQuotes: Very limited number of projects.
DesignQuote: Very limited number of projects.
Get1Freelancer: Very limited number of projects.
GoForFreelance: Very limited number of projects.
ProjectPosting: Limited number of projects.
NYFreelancers: Very limited number of projects.
ProZ: Marketplace for freelance translators. Lots of projects.
WriterLance: Marketplace for freelance writers, copywriters and proofreaders.
TranslatorsBase: Marketplace for freelance translators. Many projects.
TranslatorPlanet: Marketplace for freelance translators.
TranslatorsCafe: Marketplace for freelance translators.
GlobTra: Marketplace for freelance translators.

Exotic sites:

Services either just starting or (despite the longer online presence) not grown yet. Taking the job offers that can be found there might be risky. But some of these sites can join the top ones someday…

Paid Freelance Sites

Some explanation – “paid” services are not recommended for the beginners. Setting up the account there means that you have to invest some serious money (this can be even as high as over $700) and in case of resigning, the money is not refunded. It is important to estimate your strengths and abilities before making the decision.

Freelancers making their first steps don’t know this market they’re just entering, nor the problems they can face. First contact with freelancing is better to be made without the obsolete (on this stage) costs and investments – so the “free” pages available without the paid subscriptions seem to be the better place to start.

Recommended sites:

The biggest and the most attractive paid freelance auction site. Over 100,000 projects posted annually (over 270 projects posted daily).

Other sites:

Money Transfer and Withdrawal

The most popular ways of withdrawing and transferring your earned money.

The most popular money transfer service. Not available for a few countries.
Alternative money transfer service. Available worldwide. Low fees and quick transfers.
Another money transfer service. Available worldwide. Low fees and quick transfers.

Freelancer’s Tools

Free image hosting service. A convenient form of presenting the sketch design for people who don’t have their own server space.
Free stock photo site. Using of certain photos may require owner’s agreement or crediting him as an author.
Paid “sister site” of StockXchng. Huge library and very affordable prices ($1-$3).
Stock photo site. Huge library and very affordable prices ($1-$5).
Stock photo site. Reasonable library and very affordable prices ($1-$2). Purchased photos can be used in template designs.
Stock photo site. Big library and very affordable prices ($1-$3).
Free font site with nicely organized font categories.
Domain registrar and hosting provider.
Free service that checks Web documents for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
The Typetester is a free online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ role is to make web designer’s life easier.
Dummy text generator - “lorem ipsum”.
Articles about design and development with a special focus on web standards.
Free service providing screenshots made in various browsers. Perfect for low cost cross-browser compatibility testing.
Tutorial site with thousands of tutorials in multiple categories.

Freelance Site Owners

Freelance Partner

If you are the owner of the freelance auction site or other site related to freelancing and you’d like it to be added to this page, please contact us.
Our editor will review your site and after approval it will be added to the appropriate category.

The lists of services are constantly updated. Every month many new freelance markets are launched while others disappear.
Websites which don’t offer quality services or don’t have any new projects posted will be removed from the list.