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I have always wanted to do freelancing but refrained from it. Below are my skills, Official: I got 5 years of experience in various fields, 1 year as manual
by vignesh_vs_in 14y ago
I have always wanted to do freelancing but refrained from it.
Below are my skills,
Official:
I got 5 years of experience in various fields,
1 year as manual tester for a Mainframe/JSP based application.
2 years as an automation test engineer, which is a fancy way of writing scripts to do automatic tests.
2 years as a tools developer for an automation framework, work involves writing java/Oracle based tools to do a specific task.
Non Official:
. 2 years learning to code and worked on basic android applications.
. 2 years on iOS ranging from games to apps.
Side Projects:
Android:
Personal Finance Calculator (http://bit.ly/STAJ8n http://bit.ly/STAJ8n) helps you to calculate Loan Interest rate.
Baby Names (http://bit.ly/STAJ8n)Provides http://bit.ly/STAJ8n)Provides List of Baby names and their meaning
Mobile Number Tracker(http://bit.ly/STAIkI http://bit.ly/STAIkI) provides caller info based on the mobile number (Only India).
Mobile Number Tracker US (http://bit.ly/PGakKz http://bit.ly/PGakKz)
iOS Game:
Juicy Fun (http://bit.ly/Ub7IRv http://bit.ly/Ub7IRv) physics game
Atom Ace (http://bit.ly/UxZ6F9 http://bit.ly/UxZ6F9) a different kind of puzzle.
iOS App:
London Tube Map (http://bit.ly/QqAXo7 http://bit.ly/QqAXo7) shows london tube statues.
Movie Theaters (http://bit.ly/SwedyD http://bit.ly/SwedyD) shows info about latest movies and movie theaters which plays them.
I am not sure what will I be able to charge clients as I don’t have professional development experience, and also living in India doesn’t help things I guess.
My big question is, will I be a fool to try freelancing at this stage and with my experience?
edit: formatting
- n0mad01 14y agoyou have to know that by yourself. you'll never know for sure if you don't try it.
- vignesh_vs_in 14y agoAm bit cautious on taking the leap, as there seems to be lot of ambiguity over the earning potential of a freelancer.
- benjaminwootton 14y agoCustomers will rarely go looking for a shopping of skills such as JSP, automation testing, Java, Oracle etc. Instead, they'll say 'I want a website to do X' or 'I want an application to do Y'. A lot of the time, they didn't even care what you use or how you do it. Your set of published apps in the relatively hot mobile space puts you in a good situation in this regard. The first step would be to build a portfolio of your work.
- vignesh_vs_in 14y agoI just bought a domain. I will build my portfolio and blog more. Thanks.
- mgkimsal 14y ago"My big question is, will I be a fool to try freelancing at this stage and with my experience?" No, at least not based on the tech experience - you've done a hell of a lot more than some people I've sub-contracted work out to. The bigger issue will be your attitude and approach. Treat 'freelancing' as professionally as any other engagement and you'll be fine.
- espinchi 14y agoNo, you won't be a fool if you try. You have an application with more than a million downloads in the Android market. And your Juicy Fun game looks very nice. I'd say you have a fairly solid portfolio. Do you write all these applications all by yourself?
- vignesh_vs_in 14y agoYa, i do all of the design/code/test of the those applications/games. My designing skills are not so good :D.