Freelance Developer

When did you freelance?

I freelanced for almost two years around 2011. I had already a little network of people who appreciated my talents and gave me an early start. Soon I flipped these as case studies and joined PeoplePerHour.com (which was much higher quality/standard of work options back then).

It took me ~6 months of freelancing to work my way up in revenues until I reached Top Freelancer (in revenue) on the whole site. Back then that equated to £12,000 or so of invoices.

What sort of work did you do?

Now when I consult I focus on strategy, rapid development of apps/WordPress plugins, and I leverage another decade of learning to deliver on a much higher level.

Back then I was younger and fresher and would revel in the challenge of working on difficult/new tasks/technology. So the range of work I did varied quite a lot.

• Web Apps
• Database Architecture
• Data manipulation via logic
• Data acquisition work
• Desktop apps (C#)
• WordPress plugins, themes
• I even made a few games (facebook and web app)

For your enjoyment, while I wince at the wordings, I’ll share some old case studies from that time:

How did you get on?

Generally I did quite well freelancing. They were busy but profitable times. I did have to file a court order for one client who fled the country! But other than that I did some good win-win work, which ultimately lead into EverClients, and many of what would become critical business relationships of my career so far, (Joint Ventures, Co-founding ZBS CRM, etc.)

I also wrote an article for Web Developer Magazine on freelance:

Do you still freelance?

For up-to-date freelancing/consultancy, please see https://woodyhayday.com/consultancy