Interesting Site: R&D for cash

[matthias s 0]

I stumbled upon an article in a german magazin ("Der Spiegel", for those interested) about this site[^] and I find it a very cool idea: If you are in need for a scientific solution in the chemical or biological sector, you can become a "Seeker" and place your "R&D Challenge" there. The best solution is then given a price (the article mentioned a numbers as high as 10.000 dollar) which is set during entry of the challenge. Does anyone know if something like this exists in the software industrie? /matthias

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

matthias s. wrote:

Does anyone know if something like this exists in the software industrie?

Imho, the CP forums come close. And you can't beat the price. :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

[oddtim]

There's a site called RentACoder - an 'auction' site where the lowest bidding coder does the work. There's also Google Answers, where people can set a price for a question to be answered - some of them are very complicated questions requiring a 100-page document to be produced. I can't remember if any of the questions required a full application to be written. - oddTim