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I have tried Upwork, Fiver - Both are very big and global.

Eventually you'll have to find a great Dev from an off-shore country and retain them over time.

I have seen multiple off-shore candidates who are super good that work at reasonable hourly rates.

One thing with Upwork, and I was helping a project awhile back where this was the case, someone with a high tech social profile will post. They will outsource the work to someone at a much lower rate. The last of these projects I was involved in, the individual had a very high dev advocate type profile, the outsourcing was to Pakistan. Rather than outing things, I just chalked it up to learning and being more aware for future such projects.

Oh yes, but one can always have systems in place like location + system tracker.

Upwork has a system where you can track clicks per hour & screenshots every 10 mins along with other details.

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