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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?

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Post by throwawaytree »

I make $7 US dollars an hour designing and developing apps as a full-time employee. I’m paying off a new car, pay rent, and live quite a good life compared to others in my country (third-world country).

Compared to other countries salaries, mine is awful. Compared to local salaries, it’s actually about 4x the minimum wage. The cost of living here is quite low (I pay 150$ per month for a single bedroom with bathroom). Where this kind of salary hurts is when:

- traveling

- buying online

- saving for the future (maybe I will want to move overseas, and I also need savings for emergencies)

- paying for study (courses, uni overseas)

- buying work computers or phones

- buying software or services (e.g. Photoshop, Sketch)

Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

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Post by [deleted] »

aerovistae wrote: post #6
seibelj wrote: post #3

I 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?

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Post by manglav »

throwawaytree wrote: post #11

I make $7 US dollars an hour designing and developing apps as a full-time employee. I’m paying off a new car, pay rent, and live quite a good life compared to others in my country (third-world country). Compared to other countries salaries, mine is awful. Compared to local salaries, it’s actually about 4x the minimum wage. The cost of living here is quite low (I pay 150$ per month for a single bedroom with bathroom).…

Are you interested in any side work? I'm always looking for good freelancers. My email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.

Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

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Post by choward »

throwawaytree wrote: post #11

I make $7 US dollars an hour designing and developing apps as a full-time employee. I’m paying off a new car, pay rent, and live quite a good life compared to others in my country (third-world country). Compared to other countries salaries, mine is awful. Compared to local salaries, it’s actually about 4x the minimum wage. The cost of living here is quite low (I pay 150$ per month for a single bedroom with bathroom).…

So where do you live?

Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

#16

Post by el_benhameen »

HekaHouse wrote: post #10

From 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.

If you don't mind answering the usual questions, how'd you get your start, and how do you pick up clients?

Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

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Post by Cshelton »

cronjobma wrote: post #4
defarobot wrote: post #2

I'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?

Most people call that employment =p

Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

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Post by nickls »

throwawaytree wrote: post #11

I make $7 US dollars an hour designing and developing apps as a full-time employee. I’m paying off a new car, pay rent, and live quite a good life compared to others in my country (third-world country). Compared to other countries salaries, mine is awful. Compared to local salaries, it’s actually about 4x the minimum wage. The cost of living here is quite low (I pay 150$ per month for a single bedroom with bathroom).…

What do you build? I'm looking for talented freelance developers.

Re: Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?

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Post by k__ »

mthomasb wrote: post #9

Hey 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

Europe plz.
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