I've been using upwork.com for a few months now and I'm getting regular projects as a mobile developer. Interesting ones too, sometimes to patch up an existing project, sometimes to start a new one. It took roughly a month though until the first clients started responding to my applications. Create a sexy profile and be patient.
Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
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#12I suggest you look at Toptal.
Humiliating machine disguised as a freelance platform
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
#13Hey there, here are my suggestions for you: 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…
Looks like a great site!
One typo I noticed: on pro page (https://remoteleads.io/upgrade), in 6x leads paragraph, "about" is misspelled
"That's abotu 10x less competition per lead according to our analytics."
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#15gitcoin.co I made $15k+ on there pretty easily before boring of web development and moving on to other things. One advantage is nearly all of it will be open source and show on your github profile.
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#16Been working on a project to help people find high-impact jobs tackling problems they care about (ie. climate change, healthcare, etc), and we'll have filters for part-time and remote when we launch next month: https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.
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#17This is maybe going to be an unpopular suggestion, but I think certain technologies are going to more commonly be associated with race-to-the-bottom markets, and I think PHP is one of those. It might make sense in investing in studying some more niche and higher-barrier-to-entry languages.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
#18gitcoin.co I made $15k+ on there pretty easily before boring of web development and moving on to other things. One advantage is nearly all of it will be open source and show on your github profile.
> I made $15k+ on there pretty easily
How did that translate into the hourly rate in your case?
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
#19This is maybe going to be an unpopular suggestion, but I think certain technologies are going to more commonly be associated with race-to-the-bottom markets, and I think PHP is one of those. It might make sense in investing in studying some more niche and higher-barrier-to-entry languages.
What languages do you suggest? Does Javascript have the same association with "race-to-the-bottom markets"? Having used Symfony and Laravel I don't understand why PHP has such a bad rep except that it's on the easier side so any language that makes things simple would suffer the same fate (attracting inexperienced developers (hello Javascript, Ruby, Python)). Both PHP and Javascript have many language specific issues so I'd say they're on equal footing.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
#20This is maybe going to be an unpopular suggestion, but I think certain technologies are going to more commonly be associated with race-to-the-bottom markets, and I think PHP is one of those. It might make sense in investing in studying some more niche and higher-barrier-to-entry languages.
Only if going for wordpress jobs anything else php related pay is comparable to other languages.