My general advice from these previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781 https://news.ycomb

My general advice from these previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921156 In a nutshell: Find a niche. Solve business problems rather technical ones. Don't call yourself a freelance developer. Prefer 'consultant' (as trite as that might sound it conveys the notion that you're a problem solver rather than someone who turns someone else's ideas and concepts into computer code). Network and build long-term relations. Forego freelance sites and try to avoid recruiters as well. Rather do both marketing and sales yourself and on your own terms. This can still mean hiring someone to do it for you but you have to set the rules and principles. (Freemasonry seems to come up a lot on Hacker News recently :-) I can assure you that Freemasonry doesn't provide you with business opportunities. There's no secret inner circle of software consultants either that you need to be part of in order to be successful. For the most part it's just consistent networking and relationship-building.)