Re:Ask HN: How do you get new freelance jobs/contracts?
by fizx on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:51PM
(#445841)
Networking, maintenance work on prior jobs, and extensions to OSS.
I did well by making and contributing to some pretty common Rails plugins in the Rails 0.10-1.x days, and blogging a bit. Some small tech-centric businesses wanted some Rails expertise, were using the plugins, and contacted me.
I did well by making and contributing to some pretty common Rails plugins in the Rails 0.10-1.x days, and blogging a bit. Some small tech-centric businesses wanted some Rails expertise, were using the plugins, and contacted me.