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by linked 15y ago
I'm a full time freelancer, and I've never shown anyone a portfolio. My jobs are all earned by my reputation, which I get by my networking efforts. Even back when I had a fulltime job, I've been attending conferences and meetups, talking to
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by linked 15y ago
I'm spending about $500/day and making $300-$1000/day profit running affiliate offers. I'm using Facebook ads to bootstrap my development. I vote "Yes", it works, unless you are bad at it.
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by linked 15y ago
Hi there, here's some unsolicited advice from someone who's not much unlike you -- I quit employment about a year and a half ago when I had a fair chunk of cash, and now I'm launching startups for myself. I've built about 5 projects to "alm
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by linked 15y ago
Hey! Thanks so much for giving back! I've mostly just lurked in the HN community for the past 5 years, but this week, I launched my alpha-beta-pre-launch phase of my startup, http://www.srvr.dj -- I've already filled out your WuFoo form,
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by linked 15y ago
I see two problems with this strategy: a) New developers still see "60 days" and say "Fuck you!", you should emphasize the shortest available payment schedules on your site (make the "anti-fraud" period seem more like a short hurdle to ge
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by linked 16y ago
I'm a contractor who just quit my fulltime client (the 9-5 "job") to bootstrap my startup as well; I live in North County San Diego. I only have ~3 months in the bank, but with two part-time clients, I pay all my monthly bills, with the res
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by linked 16y ago
It's not a "problem", it's a gift. Engineering the project is the hard part, but for a lucky some of us, it's the fun part. "Polishing" your project, on the other hand, blows. Who wants to spend the day building flow for user account canc