English-speaking marketplaces where you can find freelancers are well known and include such monsters as elance.com, odesk.com, and guru.com. German outsourcing platforms are far less popular and of course demand good German knowledge: just for bidding there and for communicating with your clients once you win a project.
Here, we’ll speak of two marketplaces. The first is www.mondayworks.de. Available in German and English, it lists lots of IT-related projects but only few of them are active. Bidding for others has already closed. That’s because of the fact that a new project appears on MondayWorks approximately once in a week or two, so there’s no hunt for projects (you get an email with notification) and you have time to prepare for a bid. Paid subscription is 5.70 Euro/month and you get 5 credits for bids, which is more than enough.
The other more or less active marketplace is www.freelancermap.de. Be very careful with them if you decide to purchase a subscription. Once your paid period is over, they keep “billing” you by sending invoices. After few months you will get an email from a debts collecting firm that will ask you to pay some Euros to cover your invoices from Freelancermap.de and services of the collectors. If you ask Freelancermap.de what’s going on, they will tell you that they have a new management and you can not in fact cancel your subscription by email. If you go ahead and pay the outstanding invoices, you will soon get a new email with new invoices and so on and so forth. We feel that we must warn everyone of these unhealthy and scam operations of Freelancermap.de. Those guys don’t care about their karma.