In my personal freelancing experience, I need a certain amount of money before I feel it's worth using my spare time to work for someone else. I'm curious as to what that level is for HNers. How much do you bring in on an average freelance job?
Poll: How much do you average per freelancing gig?
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#2I rarely work on a freelance project :)
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#3scooby dooby doo
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#4My last 3 side-projects (while working fulltime at BigCo):
$750, $750, $2700
Over time, I have become less and less interested in these kinds of side-projects as I have become more focused on owning the upside of my own products. But, its occasionally nice to get paid for my late-night coding adventures.
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#5Would be interesting to see what the average time spent is on projects at each income level.
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#6My last 3 side-projects (while working fulltime at BigCo): $750, $750, $2700 Over time, I have become less and less interested in these kinds of side-projects as I have become more focused on owning the upside of my own products. But, its occasionally nice to get paid for my late-night coding adventures.
Do you have projects that generate cash flow? If so, how did you decide on those projects and how long did it take for you to see a meaningful amount of cash flow?
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#7$ per job? That is meaningless. Are you asking yourself, "do freelance jobs exist where I will make at least $5,000 no matter how long the project takes?" If you're asking that I have a bridge... for you to build for me.
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#8The high and low ends vary greatly. I've done little one hour wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am gigs and then I've done projects that run 4-6 months and bring in 5 figures. On average I'd say about $5000. The most I ever brought in on a single project was $24,000. BTW those projects were all done using the .NET Framework. Take THAT, Expensify!
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#9My last 3 side-projects (while working fulltime at BigCo): $750, $750, $2700 Over time, I have become less and less interested in these kinds of side-projects as I have become more focused on owning the upside of my own products. But, its occasionally nice to get paid for my late-night coding adventures.
Do you have projects that generate cash flow? If so, how did you decide on those projects and how long did it take for you to see a meaningful amount of cash flow?
Just a trickle of cashflow, and it took ~2 years of generating enough traffic from various sources (other projects) to drive the trickle that I have now. For a ballpark, if the current growth is sustained, the trickle should be enough to buy a car in just over a year.
The concepts for the things I am building now were distilled from several other failed ventures. The choices were based on the projected market sizes.
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#10Most efforts are at $5-10K for our market segment per project and a yearly of $1500 and up