The idea itself is great. Connecting people with individuals/organisations that are offering work. In fact I think it works very well for many people. My own experiences haven't been great unfortunately as I've only taken on 1 job over the last couple of years. Ive seem too many projects where the people offering the work want a lot of work for a ridiculous amount of money or peanuts as I like to call it. I've been invited to bid for some projects but it simply hasn't been worth my while. You also have to take into account that PPH charge a fee and when all the work is completed I doubt that in many cases it's better than the minimum wage. People offering work have the upper hand here and a bit too much in my opinion.

OK, I admit, I had ONE good job out of People Per Hour. But that was cancelled out by the HUNDREDS of bids sent to all sorts of mysterious (so called) 'clients' who demand to see all manner of details about you - as well as demanding loads of free samples - while keeping their identities entirely secret. And then there are the fantasists. I bid for one job to write a business plan. I have no idea who the client was, because the site allows them to hid behind a cloak of anonimity. Though I lost the bid, I was contacted by 'a friend' of 'the client' who asked me to prepare a bid for work on US airbases in the Gulf. Do this job right they said, and plenty more will follow. No sooner had the work been completed than the 'client' vanished. They were overseas and the alarm bells should have rang when despite claiming to be the director of a large firm (and presenting utterly convincing credentials), they would only communicate via the text chat function on Skype. But that was as nothing compared to actually meeting Walter Mitty. The bid was for the preparation of educational materials for a new college. Easy enough for a teacher to do I thought. Within 24 hours of submitting the bid, I was telephoned by 'Dr X' (name changed). Expressing great interest in my work, he suggested lunch at a central London swanky hotel. I managed to beat him down to coffee (at his expense) and duly arrived at the hotel to find the 'Dr' jabbering into his phone and scribbling furiously on a large notepad. Ascertaining that he was setting up a new kind of 'college' I attempted to get further details. Where was the college? How would it attract students? What was it offering that hundreds of other private colleges were not? Answers were substituted for fantastical promises. Would I like to be 'Director of Education' in the new college? No? Well how about Principal? Hang on a minute, I've only been a teacher for a few years! Despite making it clear that following the meeting, my time was now chargeable, I was bombarded with calls asking me to do this work or that project - all on a 'sample' basis of course. Then there were 'the spies'. The folk next door to him were apparently bugging his flat and tapping into his computer - something else he wanted me to investigate for free. A quick check on his credentials found that his 'doctorate' was from a discredited degree mill, while his religious minister's qualification had been granted by a church in the US that ordains ministers by email. And as for his claims to have worked on the design of Air Force One, well! He became extremely aggressive when I requested an up front fee for work and so I made the excuse of a previous engagement to escape from him. Another fascinating aspect of PPH is the fact that clients expect you to work for peanuts. 'I need 100 thousand word articles on breast cancer by the end of this week' is a typical kind of advert that appears on the site. Also typical is the 'payment' for said articles, which usually works out to about a quarter of a penny a word. If you are a slum dog in Bangladesh or Shanghai, you could earn enough to buy yourself a bag of rice a day from bashing out these kind of articles. However, for serious freelances like myself, PPH has turned out to be a complete waste of time and effort and it is for that reason that I am pleased to say, I closed my account with them several months ago.

The PeoplePerHour website is brilliant - easy to use, easy to bid for work, easy to set up a profile and manage your portfolio. At present there is not a great deal of choice on jobs to bit for - however as the number of users increases I'm sure the amount of jobs available will increase. I would recommend PPH to all freelancers in design and other areas - it's very simple to place a bid, and the website does a great job of communicating direct to your inbox or mobile phone so that you don't have to be consistently logging in. Really great site. Highly recommended.

I found this website as very good and very easy to use , the only thing i dnt like is high project fees that also from developers or freelancers, pph should work think on it as we already do cheap work and save lots of money of our clients then why pph shd charge such a high 10% fees from us ( freelancers). Other websites like elance, odesk have changed this pattern over a period of time and that has helped freelancers alot . But in terms of other things this is very good market place .