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> along with ... network I'm curious. Are you talking networking with other developers, or within a niche (e.g. with potential clients)?

• eropple 12y ago
  Depending on what you do, other developers may be clients. As I note in my sibling comment to yours, I'm not currently doing consulting, but I get a lot of free lunches bought for me so people can pick my brain about clustering, scaling, Docker, Chef, etc.
• joshavant 12y ago
  Literally everyone you know, both professional and personally. When staring in freelancing, at least initially, you will be casting a line out into the vast pool of the people you know, and desperately hoping someone has a need for your services, bites, and ultimately gives you some money. Some of my initial freelancing gigs came from places like stray tweets, random run-ins at non-tech-related parties, VC friends who passed my name on to their portfolio companies, ex-bosses who did the same, etc etc. For many, freelancing, at first, can be getting on by the seat of your pants and simply hoping the cosmos divines you with a new gig (often from somewhere or someone you never saw coming) before your savings account dwindles to zero.