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Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#2Web Design gigs were easy for me to find on Craiglist/Kijiji, but Rails app development doesn't cut it there.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#3Mostly here, my freelance work tends to come from me posting an informative comment on someone's Show HN page, telling them what is good, what is bad and what needs to change.
I often take an in depth look if there are bugs, going to my console, editing the javascript on their site and the css, to see if I can solve the bugs for them and then I email them to the poster or in the comments of the post, normally with an up vote to help them to notice quicker.
Occasionally the person will offer me work, or I will offer to do it for them, sometimes for free, sometimes for money, I'm normally not really bothered, I remember one guy bought me a pint from 2,500 miles away using an online ordering service, which was pretty cool.
I don't know about how professionals find it though, I prefer my day job to freelance work, I only take it on nights where I have nothing to do.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#4start small by working on projects in your local community, hacker spaces, networking with people who might need your skill. take on anything that is reasonable enough for you to pay the bills.
do a good job, and you will get referred.
your referrals referrals will refer you.
your referrals referrals referrals will refer you.
and then you can hire more staff and grow
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#5Mostly here, my freelance work tends to come from me posting an informative comment on someone's Show HN page, telling them what is good, what is bad and what needs to change. I often take an in depth look if there are bugs, going to my console, editing the javascript on their site and the css, to see if I can solve the bugs for them and then I email them to the poster or in the comments of the post, normally with an…
Pretty smooth. I like the idea of looking at the work before offering to fix it.
Think I will try this approach someday. Could be a learning experience as well
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#6I remember hearing that after you get a year or so of work and networking under your belt, it mostly just flows. And I didn't really believe it a year ago, but now I see it. All the people I've met from hackathons to the accelerator program to random events, it all adds up later and I get approached for work a good bit now.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#7I have been running the Tokyo iOS Meetup for the past two years or so. People often stop in looking for iOS developers, so I can get a lot of projects through that.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#8if you are a student, http://stalkninja.com/ is a good place to start
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#9Mostly here, my freelance work tends to come from me posting an informative comment on someone's Show HN page, telling them what is good, what is bad and what needs to change. I often take an in depth look if there are bugs, going to my console, editing the javascript on their site and the css, to see if I can solve the bugs for them and then I email them to the poster or in the comments of the post, normally with an…
Pretty smooth. I like the idea of looking at the work before offering to fix it. Think I will try this approach someday. Could be a learning experience as well
Most pieces added to Show HN don't need that much fixing, that's why I tend to check, plus it's good to be useful to the community as a whole, there's no point only half trying, especially not if you expect to land work from it.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
#10I'm doing contract work for my former employer.