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Ask HN: How to increase your chances as a freelancer to get paid projects?
Now and then I do freelancing projectS only to find myself competing with ridiculously low bids by certain agencies, 20-30 of them on sites like elance. This decreases the chances for a freelancer in the west to have a significant chance to get the job.
So I built this for me and my friends: www.cnnected.com
But would love to know other ways or sites to not play the lowratewar with indian developers. Any ideas?
- Jeremy1026 12y agoI signed up, I like the idea that developers pay a small fee to get connected, this likely keeps the riff-raft out of the bidding process. What is the plan for if this service grows, and the bottom of the barrel contractors from overseas start to take over this service as well?
- jibly 12y agoI'm thinking of making it for european/us freelancers only. Not entirely sure yet. But all ideas are welcome or other platforms that are tackling similar ideas to see what they are doing to solve the problem.
- Jeremy1026 12y agoVerifying in what way?
- jibly 12y agoLocation could be one way. But will have to see and test
- MichaelCrawford 12y agoI don't use eLance for the specific reason that its rates are so low. I find my leads other ways. Here are some: http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/ http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/ I have lots more that I'll post soon.
- jibly 12y agoAwesome tnx for posting, looking fwd seeing the other ones.
- Jeremy1026 12y agoHow often do you expect this service to send out emails? Also, are you marketing to people looking for freelancers as well?
- jibly 12y agoWill start out 2 times a week but I expect to ramp it up to daily jobs being posted. I am marketing it to those people as well yes, but first need to have a significant database of developers.