What are you averaging per year, as a freelance app developer?
Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
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Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#2I'm 1/3 of a three person dev. shop — does that count? We charge 250/person/hr and have been doing 40+ hr weeks for the last few years. We'll also make some margin if we need to sub out occasionally as client needs increase. This stability is really shaky though as all this work was from a single client.
Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#3I know a guy making $10-15k a month from his apps. He's a full time employee now, but when he had kids, he stayed home, taught himself android, and made apps for 5 years while his wife worked full time. Now they are in maintenance mode and print cash.
Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#4I'm 1/3 of a three person dev. shop — does that count? We charge 250/person/hr and have been doing 40+ hr weeks for the last few years. We'll also make some margin if we need to sub out occasionally as client needs increase. This stability is really shaky though as all this work was from a single client.
You've been making 7-figures of a single client for a few years?
Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#5I see not many people want to associate their usernames with income info. I am a web app and mobile app developer and I make around $25K a year. This excludes any extra and side projects or gigs from other areas (marketing). I plan to increase this to $60K by starting doing niche projects soon and entirely focusing on development, but for now, I am focusing more on my side projects.
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#6I know a guy making $10-15k a month from his apps. He's a full time employee now, but when he had kids, he stayed home, taught himself android, and made apps for 5 years while his wife worked full time. Now they are in maintenance mode and print cash.
What apps did he make? How did he make money off of them?
Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#7Varies from 5 to 6-figures/y, working mainly for large companies, mostly in the edtech space. (http://jibly.com)
Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#8I know a guy making $10-15k a month from his apps. He's a full time employee now, but when he had kids, he stayed home, taught himself android, and made apps for 5 years while his wife worked full time. Now they are in maintenance mode and print cash.
What apps did he make? How did he make money off of them?
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Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#9Hey all, Matt from Bonsai (YC W16) here. We provide contracts, proposals, invoices, and other tools to freelancers, mostly developers and designers.
We used our anonymized data to break out what freelancers earn with different experience levels, skill sets, locations, etc: https://www.hellobonsai.com/rates
Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
#10From 120-180k over the last 5 years or so, typically doing prototypes and MVPs for startups across platforms.
Almost every project involves web servers, web clients and mobile clients.
Mostly self taught but also studied cognitive engineering which has helped a lot in understanding how to create systems and work with AI.