There's a startup called Manara (YC W21) that connects engineers in the Middle East and North Africa with global tech companies. Here's their Launch HN: https:

There's a startup called Manara (YC W21) that connects engineers in the Middle East and North Africa with global tech companies. Here's their Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054 Here's their website: https://www.manara.tech https://www.manara.tech I wrote a little Twitter thread that contains tips for people who want to do consulting/freelancing that you might find useful in the meantime: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/1310668293305499653 https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965... I am not unfamiliar with the government problems you describe, and I'd stay away from government work (whether that be getting a job in a state run entity or working on projects for government run entities). What you can do to increase your revenue and get to a better place financially and mentally that affords you more options and the ability to think: - Re-sell the product you built for one client to other clients in the same sector. Example: you built a static site for a pharmacy, make a bundle and go after pharmacies so the product is already made and you can close sales and generate revenue from the same code base. - Find more clients: you can generally get a list of operators from the chamber of commerce or governing bodies for certain activities/professions. For example, you can get a list of all registered pharmacies and then sell your already-made product to them. Your pitch will be tuned because of all the conversations you'd have had with them. - Build additional things for additional problems in their workflow to get a suite (either at the feature level, or in separate products). - If what you built is for a role that's present in several sectors, target other sectors as well by targeting the roles as opposed to the sector, but it may make sense to focus on one sector at first. - Charging more for your services: qualify clients, weed-out hagglers, continuously audit for what went well and what didn't and try to reproduce the good interactions/projects/clients. - Improve your skills and tooling. (note that this is at the bottom of the list, but to be done as you do the above) I'm available if you have questions along the way about product, people, engineering, hiring, sales, or you want to bounce off ideas or have problems. Contact information in my profile. From Algeria, with love.