I'm curious as to how many of you Flowers work for yourself or for a tiny independent web development shop. Other than the obvious network, network, network and cold calls/emails what other inventive ways are there to get new clients? Anybody ever get clients from attending conferences and handing your card out to everybody? ...
I've got too much to do in too little time. Can you recommend a freelancing / outsourcing service ? Also how do you manage the source code, are there any services like Google code but for closed-source projects ? ...
Anyone know of more sites to get freelance short jobs to make some extra cash, like odesk? Any recommendations? ...
Anyone had any success with similar freelancing sites? How did you break into the market without any previous feedback for buyers to go on? ...
If you have been freelancing for a few years, does it make you less likely to be hired by an employer? What if you freelanced for 3 years, then worked for 2 years, then went back to freelancing for 2 years and now want to get back to a fulltime job? Will not an employer avoid someone with a freelance background because they know he cou...
Plain and Simple: How much should an up-and-coming programmer know if they want to try and take on the challenges that freelance jobs present? ...
What's the best way to find freelance/contract coding projects? I'm looking for paid freelance coding jobs. Almost all of the websites that I've come across are filled with foreigners willing to work at 1/4th the pay, job posters wanting you to recode Microsoft Office for $50, or grey-area coding projects (link generators, bots, trojan...
I am a software developer looking to make money. I have been self-teaching myself C++, C#, PHP, [X]HTML, CSS, Javascript and SQL for the last four years and am very comfortable with each language listed. During those four years I was living at home; which made it easy to focus on programming more then if I had to support myself. My prob...
In a situation where code ownership was not mentioned and no contracts were signed who would you assume owns the code? The company or the freelancer? If it was taken to court is there some kind of legal precedent where it goes to one party if nothing was said? ...
If so, what do you do to get the job? The first time I tried, I underbid and pretty much halved the time of my competitors, I wrote a detailed proposal including an ER Diagram of the database I was going to create them and how long I estimated it would take each of the tasks to get done. I'm not trying to steal your super secrets, but...
I have been offered to work on a medium sized maintenance project. I haven't done freelance work in a while and am looking for some advice on how to set an hourly rate for this project. The job was offered to me through word of mouth. A business needs some bug fixes and improvements done to their LOB software. The original software was ...
I'm looking for ideas on how to find off-site work, preferably short-term and/or part-time. Completely remote access, other side of the world type stuff that I could do from my house for a bit of extra income. Places like rent-a-coder seem a little to low brow, with a lot of the winning bids being ridiculously undervalued (I imagine due ...
Anyone know how to successfully start your own business as a programmer for hire. Consultant or contractor or whatever you want to call it. ...
In your opinion and experience, what's best - working full-time and long-term for one company, or part-time short-term on many smaller projects or parts of projects? What do you think are the pros and cons of both? I heard that being a consultant is more profitable and one would pick up more experience. Does that beat an 8 hours by 5 da...
As a software freelancer (contractor) does it pay out to budget for things such as marketing and advertisement, training, tools (i.e. business related expenditure) or just buy them ad hoc? Obviously you need to set some money aside for holidays, sickness, etc; anything that goes under “social security” expenses category, but advertisemen...
Hi all, I had an interview recently where my prospective employer wanted to me to sign something promising I wouldn't do any web design work outside of their company, i.e. no freelancing. Are they allowed to do that? Surely if it's in my own time & doesn't interfere with my 9-5 I should be allowed to do as i wish. If someone can think...
I'm currently working on a small web application for someone. They are on a relatively tight budget most of which is paying for the time that I'm spending developing the project for them. They are going to need some web space for the project. The site is small enough and will utilize a small amount of bandwidth so I don't mind setting ...
I am a contractor who lives in UK and does work targeted at an exotic programming platform. It is a niche market with a limited number of available developers; unfortunately there seem to be no specialised recruitment company. There is a list of companies that use this language and tools, some for software products they sell and others i...
Have you had any success with such sites? ...
My startup is planning to work with a recommendation system developer company to improve our product. The only problem is, that they wouldn't like to give us the source code at the end of the project because of the unique algorithms implemented. We plan long-term co-operation with this team, but the recommendation engine is a core part ...