Ask HN: Quick Ways To Make Money As a Web Dev

[relm86]

My start up just failed and I spent all my money on trying to get it to work. I need to make some quick cash to make rent and pay my basic bills not to mention pay my credit cards down. I can program in PHP and Python along with knowing drupal, wordpress, and a few frontend frameworks like bootstrap.

[almost]

Best way to quickly make money as a web dev is to be paid to write code :) you could start by making yourself contactable here (there's no email in your profile)

[relm86]

Thanks I added it to my profile and here it is also [e-mail]

[_smaugh]

Same question here. (rant) I'm based in Australia and have found very difficult to land a full-time Job for an Entry level web developer. (adding I'm international, on a temporary working visa). freelance sites promote races to find the lower bidder and Job seeking boards are full of recruiters who usually ask for 5+ years of commercial experience in every known to man JavaScript framework + ASP.Net, PHP, SOAP, REST, LAMP environment and Cloud-based VPS what ever that means to the recruiter. (I feel relieved already) If any of you have read this far, my portfolio is on http://smaugh.net/ and I'm available for hire!

[zachlatta]

I've found that it's all about the connections you make. Are there any nearby hackathons or meetups? They're great opportunities to get connected.

Also, not sure if this is intentional, but your carousal image looks a bit funny on larger screens http://i.imgur.com/nTuf63B.jpg

[_smaugh]

Hey Zach thank you for the heads-up, the carousel is intentional. However, it is worth checking if you found it estrange.

[acefell]

Pretty sure there are a bunch of start-ups out there with non-technical founders looking for web devs to build out down and dirty mvps. Can't imagine you have to look too hard.

[relm86]

I'm not in the Valley and not sure how to get in contact with these people.

[dirktheman]

The seeking freelancers thread seems like an excellent start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637667

[almost]

That is a great way to find some extra work but I've found it only works well if you post within a few hours of the thread starting. Watch out for it on the 1st of every month!

[relm86]

Thanks I posted here with my skills

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668454

[mythriel]

why did your startup fail?

[relm86]

Long story short my co-founder quit after we got rejected a second time when making it to the final round of an accelerator program. After she had quit she still wanted a very large sum of equity for all the design work along with the domain name which she owned. I ran out of money and couldn't come to an agreement with her so I had to just give up the idea.