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Based on your skillset I would start to reach out to smaller businesses using a similar stack asking if they would be interested in a retainer package for all those little tweaks, e.g some custom WP code, shopify tweaks etc.

How did you find react native? Did you learn on the job? Wanting to take the dive but some articles seem to mention RN's teething pains

If you're going to be moving around Europe then having a "full stack" skillset is going to be the most advantageous - 3 month type gigs for devops are going to be much harder to find than MEAN stack roles, especially if you want to visit less startup centric countries/cities.

I agree that short breaks away from the "norm" is good, but this isn't really unique to startups - i'd wager that you could gain the same benefits by just taking a vacation than trying to relocate your startup + staff every X months.

Not sure I can really agree with much in this article, which seems to contradict itself (get more focused by not doing A and B, instead use your spare time for X and Y) and ignores that fact that getting close to your target audience and understanding their pain points isn't really going to happen if your sitting under an umbrella in Senegal.

Why not flip it and offer them your "standard NDA" with more reasonable terms? If they don't want to sign it due to having to incur legal expenses to check its all above board then they can't expect you to have to do the same with their NDA.

Although i'm unsure of the legality, you might want to add hackintosh/OSX86 setups in there as well, matching the right hardware combos is a big part of getting it all setup and the latest configs change often

Just tried to add a project and some of my thoughts

- you might want to mention more clearly that current posting projects is free

- Do you need to ask for address details just to post a project? I can understand when it comes to billing, but it initially put me off just to post a free project.

- You ask for a budget but i'm looking for someone for ongoing work, perhaps make this optional? I had to enter £0 to proceed

- the text boxes aren't resizable (FF mac) so its hard to re-read what you've just entered

Good luck and looking forward to some responses to my listing

due to the way the account was "handed over" to the attacker, it puts Twitter in a difficult position - they don't really want to open the floodgates of having to investigate every single request for intervention due to an alleged account hijack/ transfer made under duress etc.

I'd look to freelance yourself out to London agencies on the proviso that the majority of work is to be done remotely and that you'll be around for kick off meetings etc. Once they trust you you'll be able to switch this to pretty much 100% remote (possibly look to reduce your rate as a sweetener) and then just go to cheap SE asian country of your choice, doing visa runs every X months.

There is a large culture difference between different countries and you may as well spend some time in each to see how they fit before looking for a full time position

as others have said, earning 300-350 per day sounds great, but you need to factor in any "perks" your fulltime job has that contracting can't offer - pension contributions (start making your own) hardware (buy your own machine + software etc), training, paid holidays etc.

You will also find that some contracts are working on fucked projects where contractors are hired as a last resort/scapegoat and the work will be "get this done fast" rather than any quality product being delivered. Not saying it's all like that, but prepared to be jaded if you do this long term

I don't think this is a problem that can be solved via a technical solution to be honest. Personal recommendation can go a some way, but being able to vet developers for a specific role is something only the prospective employer can do.

Someone may be good at bashing out CRUD rails apps day and night and so anyone who uses them for this task is going to highly rate them, but that doesn't mean they're a good fit for your company, especially if you don't actually know what you need them for at the point of hire (especially true for non-technical founders).

Couple that with the fact that there's no motivation for 'better' developers to sign up to these services (as good devs are normally stacked up with work and have an existing network to hook into) and all you're left with is something similar to an odesk clone.

Some of this is awfully bad advice - why is it useful to work directly with multiple designers/developers rather than a single point of contact/project manager? isn't this pushing the project management onto the clients side?

As a developer do I really want the client being able to dominate all my time when I have multiple projects on the go at the same time?

Really nice an intuitive, the only thing I couldn't seem to do is assign multiple flags to one answer?