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A comment on Ask HN: Beginning freelance web developer: no clients - portfolio?.

Re:Ask HN: Beginning freelance web developer: no clients - p... by TamDenholm on Friday April 29, 2011 @06:10AM (#2496902)
The things you're making aren't fake, if they're functional, they're perfectly real. No one cares that you built it for yourself, you built it and that shows you know how. Dont call them fake, call them personal projects that demonstrate your ability.
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Re:Ask HN: Beginning freelance web developer: no clients - p... by tripplez on Friday April 29, 2011 @06:31AM (#2496932)
That's why I've put <fake> in quotes ;) ... to emphasize that I believe (or hope) that these projects are perfectly real-world and relatively diverse in order to be able to start doing more similar real-world + real-money projects.

My question in regard was basically whether these "fake" personal projects can convince a prospective client that I'm for real. That is, if these personal projects are not on separate domains (like it will be if they were for real clients), wouldn't they look superficial, and yes, fake?

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Re:Ask HN: Beginning freelance web developer: no clients - p... by mgkimsal on Friday April 29, 2011 @07:06AM (#2496985)
You could, relatively easily, buy 'real' domains and host them there. It's not 'that' expensive. $9/year for a domain.
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