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Post by DavidChouinard »

csomar wrote: post #10

Your labs.im pitch is probably going to send you the worst freelance jobs you'll ever have. Nobody gives a shit about your situation, and your University tuition fees. Actually, this signals a red flag for serious clients: You might drop their project as soon as you get some financing. Promote yourself as a young, intelligent and enthusiast developer with coding and design skills. Price your hourly rate at $80-100/ho…

I agree, I can't overstate how weak your labs.im pitch is, especially in regards to your clearly very impressive skills. That pitch easily cuts your market rate by half, probably more. And as csomar mentioned, it's going to get you the crappiest, bottom-of-the-barrel jobs.

In all types of pitches — to employers, VCs, etc. — desperation is the absolute worst thing you should ever let transpire.

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Post by hussfelt »

csomar wrote: post #10

Your labs.im pitch is probably going to send you the worst freelance jobs you'll ever have. Nobody gives a shit about your situation, and your University tuition fees. Actually, this signals a red flag for serious clients: You might drop their project as soon as you get some financing. Promote yourself as a young, intelligent and enthusiast developer with coding and design skills. Price your hourly rate at $80-100/ho…

I agree with csomar! Your pitch seems weak and I would hesitate to give you a project.

It looks like you have some skills - use them to promote yourself! :-)

Nice work!

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Post by [deleted] »

e12e wrote: post #19
DavidChouinard wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, this is top-notch work. I would drop the beatup negative attitude, it's a big turnoff. You could easily get a remote part-time job in the Valley for 100+$/hour — think of it, that's only 40 hours of work to pay off your tuition.

Really? Easily? I've yet to see anyone willing to hire someone to do off site work with a US company, in the Valley or elsewhere. At least not development work, or anything in the range of 100 USD/hour. I've always found that a bit strange, but maybe you know something I don't? For the record I'm based in Norway, and English is my second, not first language -- but even if it was just to recommend friends and acquaint…

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Post by mootothemax »

e12e wrote: post #19
DavidChouinard wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, this is top-notch work. I would drop the beatup negative attitude, it's a big turnoff. You could easily get a remote part-time job in the Valley for 100+$/hour — think of it, that's only 40 hours of work to pay off your tuition.

Really? Easily? I've yet to see anyone willing to hire someone to do off site work with a US company, in the Valley or elsewhere. At least not development work, or anything in the range of 100 USD/hour. I've always found that a bit strange, but maybe you know something I don't? For the record I'm based in Norway, and English is my second, not first language -- but even if it was just to recommend friends and acquaint…

Really? Easily? I've yet to see anyone willing to hire someone to do off site work with a US company, in the Valley or elsewhere. At least not development work, or anything in the range of 100 USD/hour.

I won't discuss my rates in public, but I have clients in the States and UK. I'm a British guy based in Poland, and only one of those clients has been via a direct contact. All others have come to my. As briefly touched on in another comment, I'm also not a cheap option.

The work's definitely out there - just look in the HN "who's hiring" threads. I've also had some enquiries via my various SaaS apps, which double as a nice side income and an advertisement of sorts.

Edit: I'm willing to concede that this isn't easy per se; I'm highly competent at what I do, and I'm also happy to do lots of chatting over Skype or via email first. Without my talent or willingness to chat, I'm not sure that this would be as successful as it is for me.

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Post by Sodaware »

Why is activity so much lower on a Friday? Is it because everyone has lots of work to catch up on and no time for HN, or is it because people are leaving work earlier on a Friday?

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Post by Void_ »

You're a great designer. You could get a job just as a designer.

Then you know D3. You can sell yourself as a package that can create beautiful visualizations.

Then you made it to the top of HN. This is no coincidence. You got here on purpose. You studied previous post and knew exactly what to make that would interest this crowd.

All that makes you a smart person, way above average. Go charge a lot of money.

Having said that, you're not too much of a marketer.

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Post by rokhayakebe »

csomar wrote: post #10

Your labs.im pitch is probably going to send you the worst freelance jobs you'll ever have. Nobody gives a shit about your situation, and your University tuition fees. Actually, this signals a red flag for serious clients: You might drop their project as soon as you get some financing. Promote yourself as a young, intelligent and enthusiast developer with coding and design skills. Price your hourly rate at $80-100/ho…

Spot on. I visited the page and immediately thought "Dark Knight," for whatever reason, and I was telling myself this person is a great designer. Out of curiosity I went to the homepage, and the pitch, while moving and honest, kind of took away from him.

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Post by joshmlewis »

csomar wrote: post #10

Your labs.im pitch is probably going to send you the worst freelance jobs you'll ever have. Nobody gives a shit about your situation, and your University tuition fees. Actually, this signals a red flag for serious clients: You might drop their project as soon as you get some financing. Promote yourself as a young, intelligent and enthusiast developer with coding and design skills. Price your hourly rate at $80-100/ho…

Something that I've learned, never undercut yourself when pitching yourself. Even if you don't have real world experience, act like you do. Don't lie, but don't flat out say it. If you act like you know what you're doing and can show a few things like this, this will be enough for most people. Overstate your passion for this stuff and that you're a hard and dependable worker. No doubt you'll get a few emails from this and some will be job offers. I was in the same exact boat almost a year ago when I posted something similar on HN, I got an offer and that gave me that good start I needed. Now I'm cofounding my own startup and we're in an accelerator and raising money. Keep your head up, don't be negative about yourself, and keep pushing, you'll get there.
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