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Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by ahlatimer »

philfreo wrote: post #6

I'd stay away from elance and other similar sites if I were you. Focus on getting your name out there as a freelancer in certain niche communities (Django, for instance) rather than competing mostly on price for any kind of work.

I highly and wholeheartedly disagree with this. Yes, there are a number of projects on elance that are only concerned with price, but I've managed to pick up a few good clients via elance who were willing to pay a higher fee for quality work. My suggestion: don't apply to the jobs that say their budget is $5-10/hr for 3-6 mos.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by bengl3rt »

awt wrote: post #16

Checkout the gigs section in craiglist. There are lots of short term projects there. You never know what will happen...

Amen. I found a three month software gig on craigslist that turned into two more years of really interesting work with great people.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by skullsplitter »

This thread is really inspiring. I havent found anything yet (only posted this morning :) but Im feeling confident that something cool will turn up out of all of the linked resources. The craigslist gigs idea seems like it has potential. For some reason I never considered it.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by gigafemtonano »

CWIZO wrote: post #17
gigafemtonano wrote: post #7

These fine folks give $1,000 for small projects on a monthly basis: http://awesomefoundation.org

Do you have any more info about this? FAQ&about sections of their site is under construction, and it all seems too good to be true.

I applied a while ago when their site had more details and they were just based in Boston. I learned about them from a Reddit ad. Seems like it's some tech people who made money and want to give it away in exchange for having you do awesome stuff. Maybe it's under construction because they're expanding to new cities now?

Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by yousuffauzan »

skullsplitter wrote: post #12
BSierakowski wrote: post #10

I'm currently working on a project devoted to hooking up devs and developers based on projects that they want to work on - what sort of work are you looking for? Have an academic interest in what sort of criteria you're using to choose what to work on.

Im mostly interested right now in python web apps and node.js type projects. A couple things I whipped up recently: whosreppin.me : A site to connect voters with their local reps (django) hckrn.ws : A mini hacker news targeted for mobile devices (node.js / couchdb) Is that what you were looking for?

DEBUG is set to TRUE on whosreppin.me...you might wanna change that

Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by skullsplitter »

yousuffauzan wrote: post #25
skullsplitter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im mostly interested right now in python web apps and node.js type projects. A couple things I whipped up recently: whosreppin.me : A site to connect voters with their local reps (django) hckrn.ws : A mini hacker news targeted for mobile devices (node.js / couchdb) Is that what you were looking for?

DEBUG is set to TRUE on whosreppin.me...you might wanna change that

thanks for mentioning! fixed.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for finding short term projects?

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Post by RACNicole »

philfreo wrote: post #6

I'd stay away from elance and other similar sites if I were you. Focus on getting your name out there as a freelancer in certain niche communities (Django, for instance) rather than competing mostly on price for any kind of work.

At vWorker, employers select the lowest bidder only 19% of the time as illustrated here: http://bit.ly/av0S4R
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