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Hacker News Freelance Developer
I once charged a client $11.40 an hour to build software. Not early in a recession, not as a student internship — as a working freelancer in my mid-career…
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
After sitting down with them and agreeing to work on the problem with them, immediately send them an invoice for either the whole estimation (billable in incremental milestones) or a block of hours (sic., as little as 4h)
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
Freelance Developers have to rate their services by time or by value. Here I, as a freelance React developer, want to argue in favor of charging by time ...
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
Here’s a random list of things I have done to find freelance jobs. The list includes things that I haven’t done yet but plan on doing ;-) Join Slack and Discord…
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
I have been working as a freelance developer for a few years now. All my customers come through a middle-man, typically a consultancy agency.I believe I am good at what I do but I dont have any strong brand per say.What would you do to attract better...
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
Article URL: https://blog.frontwork.dev/how-to-charge-as-a-freelance-developer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657977 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
There should be examples on the web. The only thing I'd add is that resume writing is incredibly common -- millions and millions are written every year -- so there's lots and lots of information out there. (There's even services that will help you write a...
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
So to answer your question: Actually, there's lots of good talent out there in the world, often affordably. But you have to do your upfront due-diligence not in the form of endless reference checks and technical quiz BS, but in the "can I work with this...
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
You can earn quite a bit if you're efficient, though this model is not that scalable beyond that e.g. it's difficult to build an agency / consultancy with full-time billing and very low negotiating overhead. Your role will turn more into that of a manager +...
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
Generally speaking you want to focus on more than raw technical skill. It's far more important that you align on expectations, values, etc. than it is to hire the world's greatest developer.
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Hacker News Freelance Developer
It’s been a while since my last reader question post. That was the one where I confusingly announced on a Tuesday that I’d be doing reader question Mondays. Well, today I start a new streak of doing reader question posts on Mondays. My apologies for...
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