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Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
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Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#2Welcome to HN! You'll find that this was asked previously:
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#3HN who's hiring threads, exclusively
update: I post my pitch in the freelancer thread and potential clients contact me, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998249
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#4I've been contracting, consulting & freelancing for the last 10 years (5 years completely remote). My advice is to avoid "searching contract work", but reverse the situation completely: make your new clients find you instead. I wrote about this in depth here: https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/how-to-have-clients-find-you....
Sites /can/ work (I know people who make a good living off certain sites), but nothing will beat self-managed marketing on the long run.
Feel free to email me (see profile) if you have specific questions.
Good luck!
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#5Welcome to HN! You'll find that this was asked previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908279
Good find, thanks for sharing that link.
It's interesting that the other thread was 364 days ago, which would have been exactly this same Monday last year (ie: the beginning of the third week of Jan.)
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#6Welcome to HN! You'll find that this was asked previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908279
Good find, thanks for sharing that link. It's interesting that the other thread was 364 days ago, which would have been exactly this same Monday last year (ie: the beginning of the third week of Jan.)
Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year.
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#7I used to do a lot of contract work. I can't tell you what you should do - but here is what i did and it worked for me
Two approaches:
1) Work for one large client and essentially become an employee (consider this. a lot of startups pay good money for remote employees)
2) Work for multiple clients
Focusing on #2 here
Core rule: You want to be paid premium for quality and service.
Avoid marketplaces - it's very hard to compete on quality here.
Niche - the more focused you are on a (profitable) niche the better you can charge premium for domain competence
As thibaut_barrere mentioned - Build a brand - i would even go further - create an agency like brand. At the point is stopped saying "I" but said "we" i was able to charge more.
Dont charge by the hour but by the value - most developers charge their time - you want to charge the value you provide to the client. Read up on "willingness to pay"
Most important: Deliver as promised and always try to over-deliver in service, quality, etc. Eg try to understand why the client asks for features and not only what features she/he asks for - you might be able to come up with better solutions or anticipate future requests. Any successful project should usually lead to improved reputation and more projects and clients.
Good luck!
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#8I recently made it through the Toptal (http://www.toptal.com) screening process but haven't taken on any work through their site yet, the hourly rate that you can ask there seems to be quite reasonable though compared to sites like upwork.com, where you will mostly compete with people that are willing to work for 10 $ / hour (which for someone living in a developed country is just not possible).
For Germany, Gulp (www.gulp.de) is a very good site where you can actually find clients that are willing to pay a reasonable hourly rate (they even have a rate calculator on their site).
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#9HN who's hiring threads, exclusively update: I post my pitch in the freelancer thread and potential clients contact me, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998249
Have you had success replying to those posts and asking 'Would you consider a freelancer for this position?' or how do you go about it since these threads seem to implicitly indicate that they're looking for employees?
Re: Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?
#10I've never used a website. Reach out to everyone you know. Buy them a coffee, mention you are getting into contracting, ask who else you should talk to, thank them, repeat.