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I was thinking of doing something similar. I think I’m well positioned for this as I have a natural ability to juggle many contexts, I used to run a software agency, and I’m pretty good at architecture early on which means solutions come out more robust and flexible. I have had really good experience with AI tools and I’m constantly evolving my workflows.

I’m wondering how did you land your current gigs?

Thank you.

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I land most of my clients by maintaining my blog and a github with open source projects. I have build a lot of general purpose MCPs and quite some tools, which are all written by Claude (3.5 and 4.0) and now GPT5. On my blog I just blog together with AI. It sounds silly, yes... I don't want to share it here publicly, but it looks good and it gets me people in my inbox (email/linkedin).

So I post on LinkedIn & Reddit, and I am not doing it in a spammy way. Do some outreach through LinkedIn and post on YCombinator on my personal account on the monthly who's hiring/freelancing posts. But a lot of the traffic I get comes from organic search and reddit -> clients. I had a client who told me they found me on Twitter; but I never even posted there, so someone reposted an article.

I am glad to hear that the content still works. I thought ChatGPT would kill all SEO and content marketing.

I usually do write the whole article. Maybe I spend an hour on it. Sometimes even much longer. And then I have a way of rewriting it with AI to improve the writing style. Which I then proof read and keep improving. I do this because reading back what I wrote feels even worse than listening to my own voice. It just gives me a visceral reaction lol. But yes this worked. I always wanted to write and blog prior to AI, but my aversion to proofreading my own writing stopped me from doing so over a decade (dozen actual genuine attempts).

Google does not mind. I rank quite highly for some niche keyword on LLM programming.

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