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by larrykubin 6138 days ago
Over the past few years, I've worked on quite a few PHP/MySQL/jQuery/Oracle webapps for clients. I've never worked on a plain HTML site or a Flash site, so I can't provide any stats there.

Here are some of my stats - most projects I have worked on cost around 10-20k, average around 75-100 an hour, and take approximately 3 months of part time effort. I've done maybe 15 to 20 projects of this length/cost. I like projects of about this size because: I am not overwhelmed, it allows for nice quarterly vacations ~ a week each, the requirements aren't overly complicated, I have free time during the day, and the projects don't drag on forever. I freelance in Austin, my wife covers me on her insurance, I'm in my late 20's, and have done this for 3 years.

I have bid on a few 100k-size, year long projects, but have not been selected for any of them so far. So it goes.

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If you don't mind me asking, where/how do you find projects to bid on?