The truth is is that you don't need a network to land freelance gigs. Going to meetups is nice, but you can skip that step. There are remote projects posted al

The truth is is that you don't need a network to land freelance gigs. Going to meetups is nice, but you can skip that step. There are remote projects posted all the time on job boards, Slack channels, Discord, Twitter, Facebook Groups, and many other places that aren't UpWork. I freelanced for 4 years completely remotely as a front-end developer always finding my clients in this way on various places and reaching out directly with email. It's always about consistently reaching out to keep your freelance pipeline full, showing clients you have the technical skills by your showing previous projects in your email cover letter, and that you can be reliable by consistently emailing back quickly. P.S. - I started https://remoteleads.io/ https://remoteleads.io/ to solve this problem of finding remote work for myself and it turns out many others needed this too and now we're growing at a pretty consistent pace.