Emma and the team have been slow burning this. It feels perfectly niche enough for the market - and decidedly better than other recent 'freelancer' options.

Pros:

Amazing product, from idea to community values

Cons:

Small, so clients projects reflect that.

Hiring engineers is hard. It can take months to find a full-time hire, and sometimes you just need help right away. Moonlight makes it easy to hire experienced engineers when you need them. We have thousands of software consultants on the platform, and you choose who to work with based on skills and knowledge of your tech stack. We are a two-person team living the digital nomad life through Moonlight. We even use the platform ourselves to bootstrap the company! We hire contractors to augment our small product team, and do contract work for other companies 10 hours a week. Here’s what makes Moonlight different: -Contractors only have to work part-time. Two-thirds have day jobs at top tech companies (mostly in the Bay area), and moonlight on nights and weekends. -It’s low-touch and self-serve. You directly hire and work with contractors. We match based on skills, like React.js and TensorFlow. We track 150+ skills, so when you hire an engineer - you can find somebody who already knows your software stack. -Automated from start to finish. Moonlight handles everything from collecting proposals to weekly check-ins to payments to tax forms. We took the “minimum” in “MVP” to the extreme. For the past 6-months, we ran Moonlight without writing a line of code. Not only that, it was profitable! We used Google forms, spreadsheets, Zapier, Typeform, and emails to prototype an app. We gained a unique perspective through this process, and designed an automated product based on our experience. Companies and contractors were happy with the manual process, and we know that today’s launch of the automated app will be even smarter and faster! Get started today and start making quick momentum with specialized engineers. or apply to work as a contractor!

How is this different than sites like Upwork or Toptal?

"all contractors must have at least one year of professional experience in each skill on their profile." - One year doesn't seem to be sufficient for a developer to be 'experienced'. When I think 'experienced' I think 5+ years of experience.

Even if they work in a professional setting in a large company, there's no guarantee their code quality is high.

Pros:

Nice website, good concept

Cons:

Requirements are not too high so the quality might be too low

Looks cool! Any plans to expand outside of development and provide product/project managers or other specialties?

Are you guys planning to add support for other countries where Stripe doesn't work?

I signed up for the beta a while back. So far did one project through the platform and the experience has been great. Really liking the personal touch and high quality projects.

Pros:

Feels very personal. The fact that you get matched to projects on actual skills instead of general terms like "web designer" is great.

Cons:

They still need to build out some features, but progress has been steady.

I submitted a project on Moonlight and within a day or two, I had quotes from 7 great freelancers who told me how long they thought it would take and what their rate was. It was easy to select a freelancer and get going on the project.

Pros:

Great way to quickly & painlessly find freelancers for all types of projects. You don't have to worry about invoicing or timelines either!

Cons:

I can't think of any!

Great idea, will sign up for this and try it out. Does it cater for developers abroad who don't have Visa/Sponsorship to work in the US?

Love the interface. It's exactly what I've been looking for. I signed up with the Beta version and the2 projects I've worked on with contractors from Moolight have both been great experiences.

Pros:

Great platform. I've worked on many freelance collaborative products before, it's been hard finding quality help. Moonlight is the answer!

Cons:

As said before, it's still small. Excited to see how it grows.