Let's Workshop

Check out http://letsworkshop.com/ for jobs.I discovered the site here on Hackernews about a year ago. A freelancer called Robert has been running the site. He also sends out weekly emails with some great content relevant to people working remote. Good luck.

Can confirm founder is a subscriber of my service, Workshop. http://letsworkshop.com

Also checkout http://letsworkshop.com/ I've used them and can highly recommend the service, I got a few great leads over 2-3 months and the quality was high. EDIT: Didn't realise it hadn't also been posted to Hacker News already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901640

Have you considered taking on freelance/contract work? I worked on remote contracts for one year at ~20 hours/week. It covered expenses while I got to work on my own products, travel, spend time with family, and relax. It was an amazing experience. Some places I'd start looking are: (1) http://letsworkshop.com - terrific resource for freelance gigs (2) http://weworkremotely.com - very high signal (3) Recruiters - most deal with full time employment, but they usually have some clients that want contractors. Some firms even offer subcontracting arrangements (they take a % of your rate, but even then it's usually much more than $25/hour) (4) Old co-workers/bosses - usually the best way to get contracts since you have a connection (5) http://hnhiring.me - HN posts every month The first one or two contracts might be difficult to find. After that, referrals start kicking in. Plus you might find a client who requires long-term part-time work (that's what happened for me).

I haven't tried it, but there are services like http://letsworkshop.com/ which are similar to what you're talking about.

What about http://letsworkshop.com - they have a minimum budget in place so that cuts out the low end immediately.

You might be interested in http://workingnomads.co/ or http://letsworkshop.com/

> * I am located in a small town that is about a 30 minutes from Carlsbad and Temecula, CA* The person that runs this mailing list[0] for freelancers is from not too far from you. He lives in Murrieta, CA I believe. You should consider reaching out to him about challenges in your area. 0 - http://letsworkshop.com/

I earned that downvote. The url I posted goes to a tool manufacturer, making me the tool :-) Should have been http://LetsWorkshop.com

There are a few weekly emails that provide a steady flow of curated leads: http://letsworkshop.com/ http://www.iosleads.com/ https://freelancedevleads.com/

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote Looking for a developer to work with me on my product, Workshop (https://letsworkshop.com) Contact: [email protected]

## Short Term - https://www.pipelinedaily.com/ for $49/mo, James will send you really good leads on Mondays. - http://letsworkshop.com/ for $597 every quarter, Robert will send you leads daily. - Get back to your LinkedIn connection and let your friends/connections know that you're looking for freelance work. I had always had LinkedIn friends/connections who gave me enough work, while I freelance in-between my Startups. - As for the other advice about working for Agencies. You can try that too. I used to lead a 50+ team of designers and front-end engineers. I had a spreadsheet of my outside contacts (freelancers/contractors) who supplement my team, and for those special requirements. ## Long Term - Maintain an updated Github (or Bitbucket, Gitlab) public profile, with few public repositories that a potential client can see and gauge your talent. - Write a blog. You can go technical, or just updates about the works/projects you do. ### Plug I run a remote-first design + front-end services firm, show me your work (Github, portfolio or otherwise), we might have something for you - https://alarisprime.com/

Devops actually makes things a little easier I think. With Ansible, setting up a server on AWS feels a little like maintaining a vimrc file. Get a starter playbook from someone and run that to setup a server on AWS. Then you modify as needed as you go through your days as a developer. The great thing about Ansible playbooks is that it codifies the setup. You have a "recipe" that you can modify and run as needed. For me, this is much better than the days where I would set up a VPS "firing from the hip." If you had me setup 10 different servers, I would have set them up 10 different ways. I think for development knowledge in general, it might be good to look at the following people... http://www.kalzumeus.com/ (patio11 here) http://brennandunn.com/ http://unicornfree.com/ Take a read through. For these guys, it's all about products. In the end, that's all that matters. Maybe try for a change of perspective where you look at your skills in terms of products. In Amazon, there are probably projects where they lock developers in dark basements to learn arcane crafts so specialized that these engineers forget how to spell their name. These engineers would probably struggle just the same as you if the need for these specialties were to disappear. Faced with the need to "retool" - would they be able to do it? Some might, some might not. There is (and probably will be for quite some time) still a lot of need for people doing the sort of "LAMP" development that you cut your…

There are a few services now that scour dozens of sites around the web for freelance dev jobs, haven't tried one yet but have considered: https://freelanceinbox.com http://letsworkshop.com/ http://freelancefunnel.com/ https://freelancedevleads.com/ http://www.flexjobs.com/

Office Hours is a service I created after reading this article about "Freelance as a Service" about a month ago here on HN. http://letsworkshop.com/freelance-as-a-service/

http://letsworkshop.com/blog/the-email-line/ The email line that's client repellent