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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by penpapersw on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:58PM (#14843111)
Good idea, thanks.

Updated my profile with an email. Don't have resume in order yet. But have done plenty of Clojure, front-end and back-end work, made several iOS/tvOS apps that ship on the App Store.

If anything comes from this, great, but I'm not betting on it, so I'm going to focus most my efforts on the suggestions to give try toptal, upwork, and freelancer.com a serious try for the short term, and to build a network for the long-term.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by myrandomcomment on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:28PM (#14844337)
Sounds like a person problem. You are at the top of HN. Get off your ass and take the few hours it takes to get a resume done. Maybe that's your issue in finding work. You ask for help but are not willing to do the most basic thing required to get a job?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by penpapersw on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:35PM (#14844377)
I have a resume, sorry for the miswording. But my wife values privacy and so isn't comfortable with me just posting it up here on HN willy nilly. And although I am comfortable with it, I feel obligated to respect her wishes.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by praneshp on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:39PM (#14844388)
What has privacy got to do with anything? Nuke your address/phone numbers, but it's somewhat unreasonable to ask for a job without a resume, and substituting that with 2 days of work (You said it took you about a day each to build the projects you linked in another comment).
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by smithsmith on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @08:28AM (#14847177)
You may have a good reason to not disclose your identity, but how do you plan to get paid. Do you want to get paid anonymously in bitcoins or you just want to provide your identity to the future employer only which does not make sense to disclose privacy only to your future employer. I am confused here.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by Domenic_S on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:46PM (#14843776)
> Don't have resume in order yet.

In another comment you said:

> I've applied for pretty much every remote job from the last HN "who's hiring" post.

You've been applying without a resume? Maybe that's what the problem is....

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by penpapersw on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:47PM (#14843784)
No, I've sent my resume to them in private. I don't have a public resume available. That's the hardest part for me. I don't have anything I can publicly show off.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network ... by simonebrunozzi on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:47PM (#14844435)
It might be useful to mention where you are (location), and if you confirm your ability to bill international clients.
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