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Genuine question: how is he expected to contract/consult/freelance as a hobbyist with 0 YOE? Outside of race to the bottom Fiver gigs that you probably don't wa
by intelVISA 4y ago
Genuine question: how is he expected to contract/consult/freelance as a hobbyist with 0 YOE? Outside of race to the bottom Fiver gigs that you probably don't want a lot of good contract work is more "getting shit done" than salary roles; which usually requires selling yourself with a track record/network.
Personally I'd just ship some crapware on the app store of your choice and spin it as a 'venture'. As others have noted always nice when they can play with your skinner box rather than glaze over when they see a Makefile.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoI started doing exactly this ~20 years ago, namely getafreelancer.com, fighting with developers at 20$ an hour. Over time I kept some good contacts from there and supplanted the low paid jobs with better clients.
- scrollaway 4y agoSame. I started at 15 GBP / hr 13 years ago on peopleperhour, doing cheap jobs and building up trust. This slowly evolved into a network, enough experience to launch my own startup, and now I've been CTO of two startups and I run my own consulting company, at 20-50x the rate I started at.