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224 points shinypenguin | 2 comments | | HN request time: 1.895s | 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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FilosofumRex ◴[] No.43359198[source]
I offer two services to my clients, consulting/expertise and firefighting. The former pays for food, gas and grass; the the latter pays for everything else including skiing in the Alps and sunbathing in Cancun.

The purpose of business is not to sell but to create a customer...

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1. em-bee ◴[] No.43363233[source]
how do you find your clients?
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2. tony2016 ◴[] No.43370206[source]
He says what he does but never mentions how he gets clients which is the most important piece of information.