jeremydavid

I have not had the best of luck hiring on Upwork etc., so I was curious where developers look to find jobs.

Am I the problem, or has the "race to the bottom" nature of freelancing websites really pushed away the good ones?

To give a bit of background: a few years ago I hired a friend of mine to build a prototype for an app in React Native, and it's grown to about 20,000 daily active users.

During that process he discovered he hates buildings apps, so I've been unsuccessfully trying to replace him ever since. I'm toying with the idea of hiring someone full time initially to rebuild two native apps (instead of using react native) to replace it - so they don't have to deal with any bad legacy code and completely understand the codebase since they made it - and then transition the job to part time for the foreseeable future (maintaining it, adding new features, etc.)

Should I be searching for an agency? Is this the kind of work that people are even interested in?

Looking forward to your feedback!

My website has a community of 500,000 users (all opted in), and I wanted to test AdSense as a monetization strategy. I registered, put up ads, and a week or so later I sent out an email to my list and had ~50,000 visitors to the page. $X,XXX revenue later, Google locked the account for "invalid traffic". I'm 99% sure the cause of this problem is that I went from 0-50,000 visitors in 24 hours (because I sent an email to my list) but there's no human in this review process. Is there someone here at Google I can reach out to and explain the situation in more detail? It's been nearly 2 months (the review was supposed to take 1 month maximum) and the account is still limited. Thanks!

I am a CRO Consultant for a well known CRO agency, and I have always wanted to live in Berlin. Visa requirements are strict for non-Europeans and my immigration consultant told me the best route is via a Freelance visa.

That's where you come in:

One of the requirements are 3 Letters of Intent from Berlin-based companies. (A Letter of Intent is basically 2-3 non-binding paragraphs on company letterhead describing our intention to work together.)

The emphasis is on intention. There's no requirement to actually work together, and no obligation for anything after. I'm going to go to Berlin to work on my own projects - so I just need these letters to get me in the door.

So with that out of the way, let's move on to what's in to for you :)

As I mentioned, I work in Conversion Rate Optimisation for a respected company, and in exchange for your help - I'd love to help you come up with a plan to grow your conversion rate.

Contact information is in my profile.

Thanks!