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Increase your surface luck area.

Put this in your HN bio: "I'm available for short-term MacOS / React consulting for $100/hr. Contact me at: <email>"

Obviously, adapt this to whatever technology / price is good for you. The point is: make it clear what you offer and at what price.

Do the same for every other place: GitHub bio, Twitter bio.

Put this as a banner bar on your website.

Add a page on your website where you sell yourself i.e. describe your relevant achievements.

Put a link to that page in your popular open source repos.

Every month HN has "who wants to be hired thread". Post there. Research all other freelance websites (upwork, fiverr, codementor, https://remoteok.com/ and many others) and post there if relevant.

Continue refining how to "sell yourself" i.e. how best to describe your skills and achievements to convince people to hire you.

You wrote open source libraries.

Write a blog post about each library, promote it on relevant reddit etc. forums, and at the bottom add "I'm available for contract work" and a link to that page on your website where you sell yourself.

This is now a process: write useful, technical blog posts, promote them at relevant social forums, add a link to your contracting offer at the bottom.




Thanks. This was very useful!




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