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Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?

224 points shinypenguin | 1 comments | 13 Mar 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source

Hello HN

In a short form question: If you do, where do you look for a short time projects?

I'd like to put my skill set to use and work on a project, I'm available for 6-9 months. The problem seems to be for me, that I cannot find any way of finding such project.

I'm quite skilled, I have 15 years of experience, first 3 as a system administrator, then I went full on developer - have been full stack for 2 of those years, then switched my focus fully on the backend - and ended up as platform data engineer - optimizing the heck out of systems to be able to process data fast and reliably at larger scale.

I already went through UpWork, Toptal and such and to my disappointment, there was no success to be found.

Do you know of any project boards, or feature bounty platforms, that I could use to find a short time project?

Thank you for your wisdom :)

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nathias ◴[13 Mar 25 15:56 UTC] No.43354573[source]▶
what's this network people keep bringing up?
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1. Zigurd ◴[13 Mar 25 16:13 UTC] No.43354726[source]▶
It's based on the template for most question forum responses that aren't actually responsive to the question.

If I could figure out how to fix that, I'd be pitching a Quora-like start up that actually works.