I have a question about market and its sizes.
This research estimates the total market size of the freelance/gig industry as in excess of $1.5 trillion based on the US and Canada accounting for over half of global distribution of freelancers, in the North American market (50.7%), and the total US market size exceeding $715 billion.”
Directly buying them on the free market
Taking jobs on the network and being rewarded reputation tokens by successful completion.This is significant added value, but has several disadvantages: 10% to 30% (in rare cases) of the job value goes to the intermediary. Your funds are not always immediately released by the intermediary. There are limited ways to have your funds sent to you; it is especially cumbersome in developing economies. Disputes are solved by single entities, which, by definition, cannot be objective.
Anyone can start right away and avoid the egg and chicken problem of new freelancers who need reputation to get contracts, but need contracts to get reputation.Freelancers can create listings presenting their services and push them on the network using a web client. On the backend, we use IPFS (interplanetary file system) to keep and distribute their listings on a peer-to-peer basis. No servers needed. They don’t have to keep their web client online; the offers just live in the cloud.