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I price quite high as a freelance react specialist. I worked at a javashop building enterprise pharma apps. I made frontend technology decisions and bet on /ear

I price quite high as a freelance react specialist. I worked at a javashop building enterprise pharma apps. I made frontend technology decisions and bet on /early adopted React when it first came out in 2013, open sourced some stuff to fill in holes in the ecosystem since it was still immature, spoke at a couple conferences, gave a few workshops. With this portfolio it is really easy to land clients at high rates from the HN whoishiring threads. I have had zero successful leads from linkedin and recruiters, it always falls apart when we talk about rates. I've learned that your common recruiter and linkedin manager cant differentiate between okay talent and high end talent. CTOs read HN whoshiring threads and those are the people who can tell the difference. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz TLDR: make predictions about the future, specialize, be right. Edit: I post in the HN whoshiring freelancer threads and potential clients reach out to me, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998249 Edit: I have a friend who does wordpress freelance for local small businesses, her business is extremely different than mine as is her story, there are many approaches that can work, the key is to understand your market

jxm262 11y ago
Will definitely find you and connect :) I've been using React full time for over a year now. Obviously there's still a ton I can learn, but yeah I was thinking I would try to specialize specifically in this tech stack as my "competitive edge" (Node+React)
swah 11y ago
Great to hear! I'd like to fill a similar role in my country, which is always delayed a few years in relation to US: Rails is strong here now! Related: do you lose sleep worrying if you're going to have to transition to mobile development or something? I suffer from that all the time - the cure is probably Real Clients Paying Money...
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- dustingetz 11y ago
  No, I have time/money to re-skill if/when I mis-predict the future, I worry more about getting older
jedberg 11y ago
> With this portfolio it is really easy to land clients at high rates from the HN whoishiring threads How do you do that? Do you just look for people hiring for javascript devs and then reach out and offer consulting instead?
- lorenzk 11y ago
  Not OP, but there are two monthly recurring threads by 'whoishiring', one for employees[1] and one for freelancers[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492088 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087 Edit: formatting.
novembermike 11y ago
I went to your talk at Strangeloop 2014. It was a good talk, I'm glad you're finding work.
thenomad 11y ago
How does your friend make her business work? I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in that too.

jxm262 11y ago

Will definitely find you and connect :) I've been using React full time for over a year now. Obviously there's still a ton I can learn, but yeah I was thinking I would try to specialize specifically in this tech stack as my "competitive edge" (Node+React)

swah 11y ago

Great to hear! I'd like to fill a similar role in my country, which is always delayed a few years in relation to US: Rails is strong here now! Related: do you lose sleep worrying if you're going to have to transition to mobile development or something? I suffer from that all the time - the cure is probably Real Clients Paying Money...

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dustingetz 11y ago
No, I have time/money to re-skill if/when I mis-predict the future, I worry more about getting older

jedberg 11y ago

> With this portfolio it is really easy to land clients at high rates from the HN whoishiring threads How do you do that? Do you just look for people hiring for javascript devs and then reach out and offer consulting instead?

lorenzk 11y ago
Not OP, but there are two monthly recurring threads by 'whoishiring', one for employees[1] and one for freelancers[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492088 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087 Edit: formatting.

novembermike 11y ago

I went to your talk at Strangeloop 2014. It was a good talk, I'm glad you're finding work.

thenomad 11y ago

How does your friend make her business work? I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in that too.