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Ask HN: How effective is monthly "Seeking Work" post?
I value the monthly "Who is Hiring" and "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?" posts, because I am hoping to build a second career as a programmer in the next few years.
I am wondering how effective the "Seeking Work" posts are. For example, this month's post has 79 people "Seeking Work", and only 10 "Seeking Freelancer" posts. This makes it seem as if there are 8 times as many people looking for freelance work as there are jobs being posted, but I recognize that many people may contact these freelancers without it being visible on HN.
Can anyone comment on how effective these "Seeking Work" posts are?
- fbuilesv 14y agoLast month I posted this message: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729612 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729612 and from that I got two emails. Talked to both of the potential customers but none of them was interested in paying more than $25 an hour. Since I've only posted once I don't know if it had something to do with my post or if that's the common occurrence.
- japhyr 14y ago"Talked to both of the potential customers but none of them was interested in paying more than $25 an hour." That's an interesting bit of feedback. I would expect people looking at freelancers on HN to be ready to pay a higher rate than that.
- dholowiski 14y agoI'm not a coder, but when I was last looking for a job (actually almost two years ago) - and I got several (3) great leads from one monthly posting.
- japhyr 14y agoWhat kind of work did you post for?
- mootothemax 14y agoExtremely effective. A couple of people have evidently been looking for very low-paid workers, but I've made good contacts and earned very good money as a direct result of my comments on HN, whether in the "Who is Hiring" threads or elsewhere.