Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs?

Posted by jawerty on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @08:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have recently been interested in doing some freelance work to make some extra money (i do HTML5/Javascript/CSS, php, python, ruby, other web stuff). There seems to be an overwhelming amount of websites/services that help you find freelance developer jobs.

If you have experience in this realm, it would be much appreciated if you could lend me a hand and reply with some websites you suggest and/or have experience using. Thank you very much.

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by route3 on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:51AM (#6566161)

I wrote up a blog post a few weeks ago that covered gun.io, matchist, hackerlist, ooomf, etc and a few other more niche job boards.

I hope to keep it updated as sites come and go (so if you have a good experience with another site/job board, let me know!)

http://www.gethourglass.com/blog/sites-to-help-launch-your-f...

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by timjahn on Thursday October 17, 2013 @12:11PM (#6566287)

Thanks for including matchist in that list!

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by MrBra on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:18AM (#6598050)

"matchist is currently only open to US based developers"

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by jawerty on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:48AM (#6569821)

Awesome, thank you.

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by ioddly on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:19AM (#6563921)

Best website = use elance/odesk/et al to build up your network...and then stop using them. There's legit, high paying work on those sites but the signal to noise ratio is pretty bad.

I've used elance myself -- it's fine.

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by stevejalim on Thursday October 17, 2013 @06:13AM (#6564425)

Check out https://www.yunojuno.com -- currently London only, and primarily on-site work, but lots of big digital/media agencies using it

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by mjhea0 on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:23AM (#6565139)

https://www.gun.io

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by Maximal on Thursday October 17, 2013 @04:36AM (#6564226)

www.jobserve.com

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Re:Ask HN: Best websites for finding freelance jobs? by MrBra on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:06AM (#6598024)

This website gave me the most results for ruby jobs around the world, so why downvote? Anything scammy I need to know about these Sirs?

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