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Mostly here, my freelance work tends to come from me posting an informative comment on someone's Show HN page, telling them what is good, what is bad and what n
by shanelja 14y ago
Mostly here, my freelance work tends to come from me posting an informative comment on someone's Show HN page, telling them what is good, what is bad and what needs to change.
I often take an in depth look if there are bugs, going to my console, editing the javascript on their site and the css, to see if I can solve the bugs for them and then I email them to the poster or in the comments of the post, normally with an up vote to help them to notice quicker.
Occasionally the person will offer me work, or I will offer to do it for them, sometimes for free, sometimes for money, I'm normally not really bothered, I remember one guy bought me a pint from 2,500 miles away using an online ordering service, which was pretty cool.
I don't know about how professionals find it though, I prefer my day job to freelance work, I only take it on nights where I have nothing to do.
- madsravn 14y agoPretty smooth. I like the idea of looking at the work before offering to fix it. Think I will try this approach someday. Could be a learning experience as well
- shanelja 14y agoMost pieces added to Show HN don't need that much fixing, that's why I tend to check, plus it's good to be useful to the community as a whole, there's no point only half trying, especially not if you expect to land work from it.