I've heard it repeated quite often on HN, that if you want to make 100s of dollars per hour, you need to bid on projects instead of charging an hourly rate. The

I've heard it repeated quite often on HN, that if you want to make 100s of dollars per hour, you need to bid on projects instead of charging an hourly rate. The idea is that many people will spend x amount of money on a project without a second thought, where x will equal $200-500/hour when you figure out how long the project will take you to complete, but if you ask for an hourly rate that's three figures, they will generally turn you down. I'm just a network security guy with aspirations of becoming a developer some day, but from my observation that seems to be the accepted theory with freelancers on HN.