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by anon1094 6y ago
Clients want one thing only: A business-problem solved right now . Clients aren't googling "JavaScript tutorial" to find a technical blog post for their specific freelance project. Clients don't care if you're on U
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Ask HN: Best Podcast Episodes?
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Ask HN: How are you making passive income as a developer?
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Ask HN: Would you still start a Medium.com publication today?
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Purely from an available jobs perspective, I recommend that you go with React / React Native.
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Thank you for your question. Yes, you're right it's a one time payment. Depending on the plan you choose, you'll get approximately 35 ~ 55 leads between 30 - 40 days. After you receive that amount of leads the paid plan comes
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by anon1094 7y ago
Hey, I'm remote based out of Ho Chi Minh as well. Would be great to meet up and chat some time... derick { @ } dericksozo.com. Hope you're enjoying over here in Vietnam as well. Cheers, Derick
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by anon1094 7y ago
Hey, thank you for the feedback. Fixed! :)
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Hey there, here are my suggestions for you: Sign up to AngelList and search their jobs. Besides normal jobs, many startups looking for remote contract developers post there. AngelList also lets you search by technology category, whether it&
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by anon1094 7y ago
Yes, Twitter can be a gold mine of great remote freelance development positions too if you know where to look. A website like this is great to make finding those positions even faster. I tell my story of how a single tweet landed me a $10K
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by anon1094 7y ago
Hey HN, I'm Derick the creator of Remotefreelancers. There are a lot of good part-time and contract positions posted in various locations. My biggest dilemma as a remote front-end freelance developer was finding them in one location. I
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Show HN: A job board for developers considering part-time remote contract jobs(remotefreelancers.com)
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SEEKING FREELANCER | RemoteLeads | Part-Time Contract Email Writer | 100% Remote Are you looking for a 100% remote writing position where you can set your own hours, work in any timezone, and no micromanagement? I'm Derick, the founder
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by anon1094 8y ago
The reality is that PDF resumes are dead. There are too many applicants for you to stand out that way if you don't already have some kind of "in" like knowing someone at the company. So what can you do? You can create targete
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by anon1094 8y ago
This was a big problem I faced as a remote freelancer looking for 100% remote front-end work. Yes, there's a lot of remote work out there, but it's so spread out on various sources that you end up having to spend time every single
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by anon1094 8y ago
I actually gave a link to my Stripe account and told the company I was applying to to pay me hourly as a contractor for doing this work. In the end, they took it offensively and denied me.
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by anon1094 9y ago
I don't understand why you're getting down voted, but this is absolutely correct and more specification is needed when it comes to "front-end". I come from a traditional front-end background (for web) and I send many fro
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by anon1094 9y ago
I'm assuming you mean engineering positions. There are some dedicated Blockchain job boards that can help you find what you're looking for. One example is https://cryptojobslist.com/ Also, I'm seeing a lot of
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My mission to help spread the message that geography is not destiny. I was lucky enough to be born during the internet age in the 90s. Because the internet already existed I was able to teach myself skills and find work that allowed me to b
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by anon1094 9y ago
The truth is is that you don't need a network to land freelance gigs. Going to meetups is nice, but you can skip that step. There are remote projects posted all the time on job boards, Slack channels, Discord, Twitter, Facebook Groups,
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by anon1094 9y ago
Hey HN, I'm Derick the creator of RemoteLeads (along with harbind). Our biggest dilemma as remote freelancers was always finding good remote jobs and projects when we needed the work. We found what works best is finding leads posted on
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Show HN: RemoteLeads, email-based aggregator for remote projects posted anywhere(remoteleads.io)
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Using the first method with a bunch of classes makes a lot of sense when you're going with a UI library like React.js or Vue.js. You have separate components and you use the classes to style them. So you're not repeating them all
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by anon1094 9y ago
After working remotely for years I found a system that worked for me. I would email, or send a slack message, to my direct manager every single day. It really helps especially when you're working asynchronously and you're not onli
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by anon1094 9y ago
Your wife already has experience working in tech and has scripting and database knowledge. There are plenty of remote opportunities for her with that kind of experience. I see at least a handful pop up every week (DB-related development wor
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As a remote front-end freelancer I absolutely always charge my clients at least 30% and usually 50% up front for the job that I'm doing. When you charge client a percentage up front it's beneficial for both parties. We both get in
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by anon1094 9y ago
When you were hiring developers was Toptal the only platform that you used to hire developers? Did you choose it because you were on it previously? Did you try any others?
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I'm a remote freelance front-end web developer and most of my gigs at the beginning came in a similar way. I just showed clients stuff that I built on Codepen and previous websites I built for fun for myself and things picked up from t
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by anon1094 9y ago
Yes, the next email is going out in a few hours. The next one after that on Thursday morning eastern time. Various sources are scraped to find remote jobs and freelance gigs specific to front-end web development. I go through them manually
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by anon1094 9y ago
I've been freelancing remotely as a front-end web developer for over 3 years now. Here's my advice: 1. Get off of Upwork, now. You're only getting into a bidding war with low-priced overseas developers. 2. Instead, search rem

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