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it's been amazing Could you please share more? What kind of work, how many hours a week do you work and the like?

• zrail 11y ago
  Sure! I generally take on Ruby on Rails work, sometimes with a Stripe-specific or email-specific bent. I have two major clients. One is a large Rails app where I do general maintenance and feature development two days a week. The other is as a part-time CTO for another consultant and his businesses, probably 2-3 days a month on average. They both pay me on a regular monthly retainer. Over the year I've also taken on Django and PHP projects as they come up, but going forward I'll probably stick with Rails. I actually wrote a book about how to handle the business side of freelancing, but that's not super relevant to what the OP is asking. Here's the link if you're interested anyway: https://www.petekeen.net/handle-your-business https://www.petekeen.net/handle-your-business
  • vijayr 11y ago
    Thank you for answering. How did you find the first two clients?
    • zrail 11y ago
      Networking :) I was invited to join a tiny community of product bootstrappers a few years ago, which led to me helping them out with various things, and them in turn helping me out quite a bit with my own stuff. This led to some paid engagements, which then led to the retainers.