I’d like to indroduce the interview with Mr. Ian Ippolito, founder and CEO of the largest online job board and outsource project systems registrar – RentACoder. Mr. Ippolito kindly agreed to answer some questions about RentACoder, competitors and business in common, Web 2.0, site upgrages and enhancements, ongoing plans and future innovations. So here it is.
Hi, my name is Pavel, and I used to work at RentACoder as a coder (my coder screen name is uncleedik). Nowadays I’ve stepped away from outsource coding, but RentACoder remains one of my favorite outsource project system. So I’ve read all the info about RentACoder and yourself at the site, but I’d like to ask some additional questions. Well, I’d like to start with this one: was the idea of creation of RentACoder a new business decision or the promising idea that transformed into business?
It was a new business decision. I ran Planet-source-code.com in 2001 and was receiving many paid requests for me (as the webmaster) to help people…more than I can handle. I realized that this could be a whole new business and that was the inspiration for the site.