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Where could I find jobs like these?
Here are two things that have helped me:
1) Answer the ad within an hour of it being posted. This may be tough if you have a full time job. My response rate when up 100% when I did this.
2) Give them your phone number and offer to talk on the phone. Email generally doesn't work that well to sell yourself, especially now with all of the low-wage competition.
3) get good at selling yourself. They need to know why they should hire you over a $5/hour developer from overseas. Some don't care and only want to pay peanuts.
Freelancer.com is horrible. I used it a few times and got a few potential clients..but most expect things like a turnkey Facebook clone for $100.
Sign up to AngelList and search their jobs. Besides normal jobs, many startups looking for remote contract developers post there.
AngelList also lets you search by technology category, whether it's contract or not. I don't think they let you search if it's part time or not on the website.
Next, I would join Developer focused Slack channels. Some of these have #jobs channels that post positions from time to time.
Here's an article I wrote that lists some of those out: https://medium.com/hackernoon/developer-slack-channels-remot...
Finally, there are also Facebook Groups as well where some companies and individuals go in and post freelance jobs.
Again, an article I wrote that lists some good Facebook groups for remote work: https://medium.com/hackernoon/facebook-groups-remote-job-fre...
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I hope the above links help and let me know if you have any extra questions. Email in my bio. Happy to help!
- Derick
It's a numbers game. I used Craigslist last year to find freelance jobs. I talked to about 40 potential clients in a month. Out of those, 30 were a no from me right off the bat (wanted to hire cheap developers, etc) and out of the last 10, I was able to setup a contract with 2. Here are two things that have helped me: 1) Answer the ad within an hour of it being posted. This may be tough if you have a full time job. M…
A good portion of the jobs are freelance/remote and pretty up to date.
I hear over and over that freelancers doing work they like with good conditions get most of their work via word of mouth. That seems to be about finding a few good clients and having an established relationship with them and them referring you to other people.