Im_a_throw_away

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Comment · 9 years ago
But how do you find jobs like that?
Comment · 9 years ago
Any good "choose your own adventure" book you would recommend for adults?
Comment · 9 years ago
To get "hundreds of emails" (let's say 500), with a ~1% conversion rate, you need 50,000 page views. How long to get to that point with just 3 blog post when you start from nothing?
Comment · 9 years ago
This sounds super interesting! Where can we learn more about your story? Do you have an email or Twitter to contact you?
Comment · 9 years ago
Really interesting, thanks! Can I send you an email to ask you a few questions about this? Where can I find your email?
Comment · 9 years ago
> You can check out Double Your Freelancing

Already read it, and it's great! But it doesn't explain how to start getting clients from scratch.

> Expanding your network is a great way to increase your 'luck surface'.

That's what I'm trying to do. But I feel like going to developer meetups is going to be a very slow way to expend my network. Any other ideas?

Comment · 9 years ago
That's a good point, I'll try these too!

However there are developer meetups almost every day in Paris, but I don't see any for business people or marketers.

Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks for the great advice!

> If you are only talking to 10 people a month, and you close a deal with 10% of them, that's 1 new client a month.

If I follow the plan described in my post, I will be talking to ~30 people a months. But they are just developers spending time in meetups, not people actively looking for freelancers. So I won't get 10% of them as clients, maybe 1% or less...

Comment · 10 years ago
Congrats, and the game looks really cool!

I'm curious: how did you market your game? What made you go in the top charts?

Comment · 10 years ago
GitHub Pages already have a CDN, so why add cloudflare?

And as mentioned in my post, Github doesn't let you have some kind of htaccess, so no 301 redirect are possible. And I need that feature.

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