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Re:Ask HN: What income can I expect as an online freelance f... by davelnewton on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:41PM (#12369805)
Yup!

That's how I started billing clients initially; basically making stuff up, estimating project complexity v. time-to-implement, and so on.

Eventually they were reasonably accurate, then I stopped doing it for awhile. I've toyed with the idea of getting back into it again, but I'm a terrible hustler, and don't have the patience for it :(

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Re:Ask HN: What income can I expect as an online freelance f... by Calist0 on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:09PM (#12369951)
How do you find clients/work? Were you contracting?

I've always been curious about how freelancers make such a high hourly, because freelance websites are full of people charging $15/hr.

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Re:Ask HN: What income can I expect as an online freelance f... by tedmiston on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:21PM (#12373235)
By delivering quality and focusing on clients that don't care about pinching pennies.
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Re:Ask HN: What income can I expect as an online freelance f... by Calist0 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @04:00PM (#12373916)
But do many of those clients exist on sites like upwork?
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Re:Ask HN: What income can I expect as an online freelance f... by kohanz on Sunday August 28, 2016 @06:48PM (#12378909)
To find clients that will pay good rates you're mostly going to have to deal with them directly, which rules out most sites that try to act as a middle-man.
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