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All of those platforms are designed to make developers platform-exclusive. The rating on a platform is extremely important to get new projects. You're shown hig
by mantas 9y ago
All of those platforms are designed to make developers platform-exclusive. The rating on a platform is extremely important to get new projects. You're shown higher, as more "relevant" offer and so on. At the same time, it's hard to have enough of good and recent feedback on multiple sites.
The market is so saturated that staying relevant (in platform's and clients' eyes) is getting hard. Even if you work on a single platform. One big project (e.g. building a nice app and then updates for it) and you're fucked. One review a year won't get you far. Especially if subsequent updates are handled off the platform.
I worked with repeated clients as well as on my own products for a few years. Working my way back up on those platforms is miserable to say the least.
- quickben 9y agoSo the harder, and more long term rewarding option, is to stay away from platforms.
- mantas 9y agoThe things is many of the clients are not really reachable without such platform. How would one advertise to a random mom&pop non-IT company on the other side of the globe? Personal site w/ portfolio would barely cut - they wouldn't even know what to google for. Arranging payment would be a huge hassle too. Working only locally is not a solution either.
- quickben 9y agoI guess if one approaches this as an employee or entrepreneur. My reply is as an employee. I'd prefer to not chase JavaScript frameworks. I guess on the other side of the coin, one sort of has to these days if the entrepreneurial route is taken?
- mantas 9y agoDid you reply to a wrong thread? I must be missing a link between the marketplaces and Javascript frameworks :(