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

224 points shinypenguin | 2 comments | 13 Mar 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.48s | 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 :)

1. perrygeo ◴[13 Mar 25 20:56 UTC] No.43357161[source]▶
Don't focus on finding work, you'll just be selling your time to the lowest bidder.

If you can afford it, build something for free, blog what you learn, and ship it. Build a portfolio of real working software and technical writing. If your software has users, talk to them and you should find plenty of work.

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2. em-bee ◴[14 Mar 25 14:56 UTC] No.43363227[source]▶
that's a lot of ifs. your project has to solve a needfor the right audience (people that are hiring) and you still have to put a lot of effort in to promote it.