Rent-A-Coder is a web-based marketplace created by Ian Ippolito. He sought to help businesses in need of computer programming connect with a worldwide network of freelancing coders. This online forum is not limited to programming though; Rent-A-Coder also connects businesses with language translators, graphic artists, and writers. Ippolito is not just the creater of Rent-A-Coder.com either, he is also the CEO at Exhedra Solutions, Inc. He claims the rate at which he was turning down projects led him to create a website where other coders could pick up his slack called Rent-A-Coder.com and the website grew popular quickly.

Rent-A-Coder is now often referred to as the eBay of the programming industry, and rightly so. Over one-hundred-thousand programmers gather on Rent-A-Coder.com to bid on projects posted by thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses. The result of this innovative system is a worldwide network where businesses in Houston, Texas are hiring programmers in South Africa and China. Rent-A-Coder is considered by many to be on the hypercompetitive cutting edge of the programming industry.

As a result of this massive network, businesses pay less for labor while employing the most skilled labor possible of a pool of thousands of coders. The coders themselves benefit from being able to seek work in a central database, and always have a host of options available to them.

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