In one of my upcoming posts, I’ll be giving concrete tips on how to actually start freelancing and get paying customers.
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Most people start with freelancing then move on to start ups when they get sick of playing client roulette. He went the other way around. There's probably an interesting story there, something way more compelling than rehashing Tim Ferriss and Ramit Sethi in the most schlocky way possible. But it doesn't look like he'd know how to tell it.
By the way, what didn't you like about the way I wrote my post(s)? I'm honestly interested in hearing your feedback, since this is my first blog.
But it could have. The main problem I've found in doing this global arbitrage thing is that freelancing is actually hard to do remotely. I mean, you could go on eLance and Mechanical Turk and do boring-ass work for annoying clients for pennies, those types of gigs are easy to get and do remotely. But to do actual serious work that way?
There's plenty to discuss on this topic, but you managed to avoid everything that's interesting about lifestyle design and then promise only the most uninteresting content later. "How to start freelancing and get paying customers" is not a worthy HN post. Most of us, if we freelance, have already been doing it for awhile.
You need to decide who you're writing your blog for. I wouldn't necessarily choose the HN audience, you might be better off serving the legions of kids just out of college who want something better than the choices they have in front of them. If you're going to target that audience, then target them, don't write generally and definitely don't self-submit to HN just to get eyeballs.
If you want to target us, then you'll need to bring a bit more substance to the table.
I'm interested in what you have to say, but you're gonna have to be more detailed and less hand-wavy to keep people interested.