Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?

Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by amelius on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:07PM (#23285029)

As someone who absolutely hates sales, I'd be happy with a service that takes, say, 10% of my income but takes care of all the sales issues.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by brudgers on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:19PM (#23285596)

If you’re ok with 10% fees, you’ll do well to get an App Store like 30%. And if 30% fees drives off half the freelancers so what?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by amelius on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:21PM (#23286050)

Freelancing and product development are two different things.

Also, getting an app in an App store requires a high-risk investment.

Further, I wouldn't want to support Apple's developer-unfriendly ecosystem.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by brudgers on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:47AM (#23291474)

Rent extraction is only one thing however.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? by mgkimsal on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:52PM (#23296941)

find a subcontracting firm, and get in there. I've worked with a couple, and while they don't tell me what they bill me out at, in one case I was pretty sure there was a 20% buffer they'd built in. I suspect in other cases it's probably more like 25-30% - you'll get billed out at $100/hr, but they'll pay you $70/hr. But in those cases you don't own the relationship, nor necessarily have much visibility in to the business relationship. You're just a pair of hands at that point.

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