[simon83]

I'm not freelancing, but I'd love to hear advice from other freelancers.

I have 11 years working experience as a full stack web developer and I think I'm pretty good at it by now. I'm currently employed and underpaid, and I live in Germany. I have no idea how I'd go about freelancing. What would be your advice to get me started?

[dmilicic]

I actually wrote a comment which may help you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791665

[simon83]

Thanks a lot!

I saw toptal mentioned in another comment, and their "Why 3%" page is quite unnerving. I don't work at Wharton, MIT, CERN, or Google, and I'm not a Top 100 Django or Rails contributor. Or is this just the 3% of the 3%, and the remaining 97% are more mortal?

[dmilicic]

Don't worry about that number. If you have ever passed a typical technical interview then I believe you can also get into Toptal.

[simon83]

Thanks, I'll take a closer look into those freelancer networks you mentioned, it looks quite interesting.