Freelancing

Hi! Reaching out because I'm building a job board focused exclusively on the Portuguese startup scene: #startupjobspt I was wondering if you have any advice regarding mistakes at this stage/what to avoid. — I want to create something without putting too much effort, in order to validate and see ...
I've been coding since the early 2000s. I started coding in ruby on rails in 2013 and never looked back. I still use jquery for all my front-end. It bugs me that I haven't made the leap to react/vue or the like, but all projects I worked on so far (freelance + side projects), I didn't have a goo...
Recently I am seeing a lot of SAAS grow & I am thinking of launching one as a side project. It can be one off like whole automation thing that I make once & forget & it makes me money or it can be something that I have to keep updated like Web or Mobile Templates. As this group has a lot of maker...
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Hi makers, I was thinking about people here who have a traditional corporate job in addition to a solopreneur life building digital products that are completely different from their area of expertise. Example: A corporate job in VC and as side-projects the building of web2, AI websites. I know...
I'm getting really annoyed with Starling Bank. They've had quite poor customer service for a while now - outsourced to cheap labour abroad.  I've been with them for two years and initially they were super! What should I use instead? 
Hey there, the it's on the title. But basically, how you handle your dayjob and your own projects? Fore me has been quite difficult to manage both, specially because my job require a lot effort and when I try to keep up with my projects I see my performance on may day job dropping so a turn my a...
I'm coming back to the freelancing game after some time building other businesses, and I used to get a lot of content writing clients on Twitter circa 2009. But now Twitter is X and there's a whole ~thing~ with it, and it's kind of a dumpster fire. So, this one is for the freelancers (bonus if ...
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I have additional 30-40 minutes a day in the morning before my day job and I want to use it for working on my side project.  I want to have the same strategy as Pat Walls from Starter Story and sit down in the cafe on the way to the office.  I don’t want to carry my laptop with me every day, bu...
Agency owners (and everyone else), I need your advice with self-identity, branding and self-positioning "me" vs "my company". I run a small Cloud Consulting agency #hazelops where we build/troubleshoot Cloud for small-to-mid startups (Terraform, AWS, EKS, Docker, etc). I do at least 50% of work...
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When you visite a website before or after an interaction, where do you leave your cursor? Me, it's on the right in the middle of my screen and you?
I'm heading back into the freelancing market from the beginning of Feb. Job market is a bit tight right now in tech (tons of layoffs, little hiring/salary reductions), so decided to give freelancing a proper go. I've got roughly half my time/income booked with one long-standing client, which giv...
I've been starting to think about this lately, especially as I've been trying to focus on building my LinkedIn presence. I'm somewhat fatigued with social media and would rather find another way to get clients. Can you have a viable service business and/or personal brand without those platforms?...
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Hope everyone’s doing awesome. DueFocus just launched on Product Hunt, and we look for a fast grow feedbacks, Any feedback, reviews or suggestions will be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance.Cheers. DueFocus is a task tracking software that creates a new perception of effective time managemen...
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Hey peeps. I'm looking around for communities specifically dedicated to freelance work - whether for software development or otherwise. Specifically I'm trying to find some more places to get feedback on the fixed-price model I'm testing for . The Roast post gave me some good feedback on the pag...
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EDIT: Asana worked! I set up a new project then divided it by sections for each category of SOP and added each SOP as a task within that section. Super simple! ------------------------------------- At an agency I freelance with, I was tasked to build out a centralized SOP vault for everyone to ...
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I want to open my upwork profile for freelance clients. Any advice? Good practices? :) 
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Normally, What I've been doing normally when I was burnt out was to take up a freelancing project.  Since burnout are basically caused from not getting any win for a long time, and I was working on some hard tech projects, Working on freelancing projects was a sure way to succeed with building a ...
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[Image] Hey designer friends! I’m looking for recommendations on a 4K monitor that pairs perfectly with a MacBook. Any suggestions?