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Re: Freelance Tips

W∴ Balboos, GHB19-Jan-16 1:30

W∴ Balboos, GHB

19-Jan-16 1:30

To be honest, I've no interest in helping move jobs offshore - potentially lowering my own earnings and adding further grief to the difficulties of local developer/job-seekers.

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Re: Freelance Tips

HobbyProggy19-Jan-16 1:52

HobbyProggy

19-Jan-16 1:52

Hi there,

well you are jumping in a pool of sharks i guess. From the point of my view, as far as my experience got with freelancers and the experience with foreign programmers i can tell you the following.

If you want to get into the EU/US Market, i mostly speak for the EU market though, you have to get a name, reputation and/or have a big chunk of luck.

To start you guys might have to bite through a hard time, because your location is not the best as you maybe know. To tell you how i would look for another freelancer:
-I'd check the websites/forums famous in germany for good people (There is your first hurdle, no one knows you there)
-I'd look whos suitable for this task and time and fits into the budget (I'll start with the lowest budget possible, might be your chance to get in) An example budget would be a ~50k for 6 months (Depends on the Tasks i would hand, this 50k would more be for a developer than programmer)
-Then i look for things i personally like, e.g. availability at the office, especially for the beginning

That are 3 main points you might have to think about and start calculating. Think about your team, do they have different specializations? What project could possibly be open for more than 1 person?

Your big winning point could be "cheapness", i don't know how much you need p.p. but i guess you could bid under most freelancers here.

The team thing, yeah a team is basically good, but you have to organize it fitting. Special abilities, knowledge and stuff, you have to play those cards to either get a bigger project and filling out more roles or get multiple things. I personally want an engineer, a "true" programmer doesn't fit the needs, for that i could take a student or cheap apprentice on programming(You can't beat that price probably). I would need someone who thinks and has ideas to drive it forward. Do you have such personell, qualities and skills? That would be important on most things. Think about it when you develope your team forwards Smile | :)

And to the worst, the location, so far i heard, things tend to go to scrums and short meetings that have no fixed shedule, so i guess at some point you guys have to decide wether you stay where you are or get to the country you want to work. Telephoneconference is not always sufficient.
So...
To get into a market i guess you have to take nearly everything you might get to then get reputation step by step. Or have a big chunk of luck, getting the chance to prove yourself on a big thing.

Maybe you could also start by filling holes/niches in the countries you want to start. Put everything you did on your presentation, show them what you did and that you did it good!
But after all, there is no master reciepe for that Smile | :)

And don't get me wrong, but here, programmers from Taiwan don't have a good rep at all. You'll have a hard time overcoming prejudice i guess.

Nonetheless i wish you luck on your trip into the wild seas of the freelancers.

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Re: Freelance Tips

BossGiveMeArrays20-Jan-16 14:32

BossGiveMeArrays

20-Jan-16 14:32

Thank you all very much for taking the time to respond. I just figured out how to upvote Smile | :)

I learned quite a lot from your replies. It seems we have quite an uphill battle ahead of us. And I was unaware of this stereotype about Taiwanese programmers Frown | :(

modified 20-Jan-16 21:36pm.

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