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This 100%. Just to give another viewpoint on this, having just started going full time on my solo agency, I actually love doing the sales and marketing stuff and scoping the work for clients. Yes, it does take a lot of time away from pure technical work but I do enjoy the balance of it. So, it does depend on your own interests and how you like to spend your time. Freelancing/Consulting is definitely not for everyone. And tbh, lets see maybe in a year or two I will be fed up of the sales/marketing stuff too.

One thing I will say though is that, it also comes with a lot of flexibility and freedom and you set our own hours and location which in itself is very valuable. Of course has its own pros and cons and you have to be quite disciplined to begin with.

The best is proof of work. If you don't have any, build something and show that off. Even listing out the companies you have worked for will be good. Cold email could work if its not completely "cold", i.e, find companies/people who are in the space/industry where you have worked so that they can see you have solved a similar problem before. 10+ years of software engineering is quite valuable, you just have to present yourself in a way where the value can be seen.

Also, never, ever work for free. One, your time is worth more than you think. Second, it makes you sound a bit less serious and less valuable and you will attract clients that are not fun to work with. Not worth your time at all. The only people who MAYBE should be working for free are students who are in high school.

I have been freelancing on and off on the side for the past 8 years and this year pulled the plug and going full time on it and tbh I am now oversubscribed. So, there's definitely a need for it.

My first few clients (8 years ago) were through posting on reddit (/r/forhire) and then also on the monthly HN freelancer thread (was shocked they stopped doing that, I have gotten 2 solid clients from those!).

I wonder how much CO₂ is removed from the hours saved because of AI.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024) on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:52AM (#38852041)
I have some Clarity and sBTC experience,what's a good way to get in touch?
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2017) on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:22AM (#14238232)
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Toronto/Waterloo (Canada)

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I have experience in IoT as well but the rate and length for that is different.

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Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @02:45PM (#14150539)
Any advice on how to transition from a day programming job to contracting? Any useful resources? Where to find contracting jobs/ through agency or directly approaching clients?
Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:32PM (#13224245)
Steve Jobs.
It is probably because of the $80M fund (http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform) Slack set up for developing apps on their platform.
The video surveillance is fake and is supposed to be a "prank". And it was recorded by the people who saw the bot last.
Re:Show HN: Pubmail.io on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @06:23PM (#9579754)
It seems like [email protected] is stuck in some sort of a loop?. I apologize if I somehow caused that. I just tried to email myself ([email protected])... :/
Closure/ Promises.

I am surprised by how many js developers that I personally know are unaware of them.

Re:Open Source Project Name Checker on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:20AM (#8471079)
i got the same message when location wasn't filled
Could you elaborate on the reporting framework? Couldn't find any details on it...
Re:The Onion launches Clickhole on Thursday June 12, 2014 @01:22PM (#7884699)

   $(window).unload(function(){
     localStorage.setItem("cqstate_v7", JSON.stringify({'achievements': {}, 'counters': {'clicks':998}}));
   });
Enjoy! :)
Great job! Would be nice if searching by last name was implemented...
Re:I found Prezi's source code on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @01:24PM (#6842060)
Here's the cached version of the commit: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

The Nexus Repositories URL (http://intra.prezi.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories) is still not restricted

Re:Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @11:47PM (#6813069)
Your name sounded very familiar, finally realized from where after reading the recent opendata email! Great job on this and the OpenDataUW API stuff. I am also admiring the PHP Scraper Class as I was planning on writing something similar.
Re:We Analyzed 30K GitHub Projects: Top Libraries in Java, JS, Ruby on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @10:55AM (#6768726)
I was confused too but, I think they analyzed 10,000 projects and the components they use. So, in conclusion a lot of JS projects use grunt.
Re:Stopwatch in CSS on Friday November 15, 2013 @10:59AM (#6740101)
It's behaving really weird for me. Initially the milliseconds go from 0 to 99 repeatedly. After click on play, the seconds start increasing and when paused it is paused but the milliseconds still go from 0-99 repeatedly. Similar behaviour with stop, it resets the seconds but milliseconds still go from 0-99 repeatedly.I'm on Chrome 31.

Aside from that, great work :)

Can't you just zoom in to make the video size larger? That's what I usually do :/
I usually just zoom in to the page to make the video larger :/ Is that any different from selecting the large option ?

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