Crowdsourced design work -- worth it? Anybody have experience on the client end?

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threeprong wrote:
For your start up business, would you be interested in working a couple of hours on a project I have where you would be going up against perhaps 10-50 other companies in the hopes of getting paid for that time?


If that sounds promising to you, then I would go the crowd sourced route.

I the above sounds unfair and you also come to realize that by crowdsourcing, you have created 100 hours of work for many different people and will only have paid one of them something vaguely resembling a fair price, then I would hire a professional designer.


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That makes no sense at all. How a business chooses to operate is up to them. If a designer wants to compete in the crowd sourced game, that's up to them. I never do spec work, and if someone asked me to I'd walk. But that's my choice.

There's plenty of people who've spent five minutes coming up with a logo design, then 30 seconds plopping in a name and submitting it. Then they submit it a 100 times, and eventually make $150. In the end they probably end up making $100/hr pretty easily.