Questions tagged [freelancing]
Questions for professional programmers who are often contracted out for various positions rather than being part of a company.
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Barter vs. Cash for a Retailer's eCommerce Site [closed]
I am putting together a proposal for a local store with both a brick-n-mortar and web presence. It's an upscale shop that also happens to be one of my wife's favorites. I am considering offering the ...
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The number of years experience needed to be a contract developer [closed]
Suppose you are a programmer in your mid-20's who has had several years industrial experience working for both big tech and a few internet startups but now you'd like to try contracting in the hope ...
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Reasonable test coverage requirements when dealing with a contractor?
We're outsourcing some work to an external developer, so I'm busy writing up a contract about what constitutes a deliverable.
So far I require that the code is shipped with automated tests.
But, ...
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Example of Terms of Services for Agile contracting?
In my experience as a freelance developper, I've had some difficulties with clients, whom insist on getting an estimate over flimsy requirements. They then expect me to deal with requirements changes, ...
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How to bypass middlemen?
I'm freelancing on a project where I'm the only programmer, and find myself at the end of a line of four middlemen, who stand between me and the actual customer, each passing my work as internal to ...
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Hourly or per project billing? [closed]
How do you bill your programming projects? Do you do it per hour? Per job?
Please include what kind of project you are doing in the answer. (Mobile, Web, Desktop, etc... You can be more specific if ...
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