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Ask HN: iOS Devs: Where do you get your clients / projects?

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I am a long time lurker here. I started solo 1 year back to try some product ideas, but, it didn't work out yet. As I am running out of cash, I am looking for projects especially building native mobile apps. I find it difficult and confusing thinking about how to attract such projects.

For background, I have published 10+ apps in the Appstore done while working for previous company. 90%+ of the work of these apps were done myself (excluding design). But, those are client apps for various companies, not as slick as Uber app and none of them have big downloads.

People telling there is lot of opportunity for mobile apps developers, but, I don't see that sitting here in SE Asia.

If you are an independent iOS dev, How do you get your projects and how much do you charge?

Not exactly into iOS dev but based on my experience, it might be worth checking out the following:

1. Freelancer.com 2. PeoplePerHour.com 3. Guru.com 4. Upwork.com

All looked upon as 'fish markets' and 'sweat shops' by many which is not entirely inaccurate, but you will frequently find decently paying jobs too. You might have to struggle initially (with bottom-of-the-barrel jobs) in order to build up your profile and get some reviews, but once you have a few under your belt, things should start getting better. YMMV

Never tried any of these. I heard that upwork requires you to install tracker which captures screen every few mins. How about the others?

Which one is the best in your opinion?

Generally speaking, most of such platforms allow either fixed-price or hourly jobs to be posted and carried out. In case of hourly jobs, some sort of time-tracking mechanism would obviously have to be in place. Not sure about Upwork (haven't landed any job there) but Freelancer does have an app. (Haven't used it because my workstation is CentOS and the linux version of their app is broken.)

In my experience, Freelancer.com and PeoplePerHour.com are the top runners. While the quality of buyers on PPH is noticeably better (mostly from UK/Western Europe/North America/Australia), the deal-flow volume at Freelancer is much higher. HTH and all the best.

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