Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing projects/clients?

Re:Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing project... by anon1094 on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:44PM (#15900768)

I've been freelancing remotely as a front-end web developer for over 3 years now. Here's my advice:

1. Get off of Upwork, now. You're only getting into a bidding war with low-priced overseas developers.

2. Instead, search remote job boards, Twitter, Facebook Groups, and LinkedIn for freelance remote contracts related to your field.

3. Find the client's email and send them your portfolio directly.

Following this strategy is what has landed me the most freelance gigs these past years.

There's also aggregation newsletters like RemoteLeads that send you remote freelance gigs a few times a week directly to your email.

https://remoteleads.io/

Shameless Plug: I started RemoteLeads to make finding remote front-end freelance leads easier for myself.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing project... by mdekkers on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:33PM (#15909201)

Get off of Upwork, now. You're only getting into a bidding war with low-priced overseas developers.

As an ex frequent buyer on Upwork I can confirm, that place is the pits.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing project... by ricksharp on Monday December 11, 2017 @09:23PM (#15902575)

Does this actually work?

Where do you find Remote jobs on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn?

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing project... by ishanjain28 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:54PM (#15926280)

2 Engineers from Microsoft Azure team tweeted about lots of work opportunities yesterday. It was quite interesting. They were looking for Junior/Senior devs writing Go, Rust, JS, PHP, Python and a few more languages.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing project... by anon1094 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:45AM (#15903483)

Yes, the next email is going out in a few hours. The next one after that on Thursday morning eastern time.

Various sources are scraped to find remote jobs and freelance gigs specific to front-end web development. I go through them manually after I've found them and only send the best 5 max.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to acquire more freelancing project... by ricksharp on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:37AM (#15904776)

Well naturally you have to keep the good leads for yourself ;)

Anyway, I'm a full stack developer so what about the back end stuff or mobile app development?

I'm interested in knowing where you source your leads so I might be able to find contracts in those areas.

Right now, I've only been able to find stuff through UW, so I'm curious that you've been able to find direct clients.

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