19f here, parents arent willing to provide basic shit so i wanna earn some money by myself. Any advice/job? Im pretty good with ai(video,images,audio),basic video editing. Dont send any sur.vey craps cause ik most of em are fucking fake.
Edit: im indian,irl jobs are not hourly or weekly. You’ll get max 60-100$ monthly since youre just a student.

I've been researching how to get freelance clients from LinkedIn and I'm genuinely confused because everyone says something different.

I keep seeing these approaches but don't know which to focus on:

1. Direct outreach to founders/CEOs Makes sense in theory but how do you even find the right person? Do you search by job title? What do you say without sounding like every other pitch they ignore? Do they open my message first?

2. Applying for contract/freelance job posts: This one i can't find much job post on this.

3. Cold email I keep hearing about this but I don't fully understand it. Who exactly do you email? How do you find their email? What do you say?

4. Posting content Some people say just post consistently and clients come to you. Feels too slow when you need clients in 30 days.

I'm a Python developer specializing in backend apis, ERPNext and AI agent systems. 4 years experience, just went full time freelance. Thought to Target foreign clients.

What actually worked for you? Would really appreciate honest experience over theory.

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What You Should Do While You Still Don't Have Any Freelance Clients Yet?

so i recently completed my 12th and i am looking for freelancing gigs here in nepal. i got little to no idea about gigs here and have no skills whats so ever anyone with experience who are ready to help?

I'm really curious if content creators are still being rewarded for creativity. It seems to me that the best way to get views on your post these days is by consistently posting for an extended period, regardless of what you create.

There are some creators that spend hours creating something that is totally original and high quality yet get barely any views. Whereas, there are other creators that create low-quality, simple pieces every single day and see rapid growth. At this point in time, it appears that the only way to gain initial visibility is through having a long track record of consistency, and only when someone starts paying attention will they begin to appreciate creativity.

On the other hand, the top creators that have long-term success have differentiated themselves in some way, whether through their storytelling, personality, editing, or their ability to connect with people emotionally.

My thoughts are as such... Do algorithms really promote/suppress creative content, or are they mostly built to reward consistency and quantity?

I have made an automation that helps pull in leads.. I want to be able to bring in atleast one client by tonight.. what shall I do?

I hope one of you guys are a owner of an agencies, freelancers, or someone who sends newsletters via email.

I hope one of you can help me out

I’ve worked in the creative industries for around 25 years, and for the last 15 I’ve been self-employed, running my own small company in London.

In the last 2/3 years I've found myself longing to move away from the client/agency-based model altogether. Why?

The main reason for me is that the business model itself feels more and more difficult to build a stable life around. Let's have it straight, a lot of clients are unreliable, late-paying, budget-obsessed and increasingly there's zero loyalty. That goes for B2B clients and agencies. I've found the pressure to do more for less, turn things around faster and justify the value of my experience, judgement and craft is increasing year after year. And I'm trying to justify myself to people who I don’t believe always understand or appreciate it what I do. Maybe that's my failure to communicate the value I bring?

And now of course AI has added another unhelpful layer to the situation. Some clients now appear to think creative work should be quicker, cheaper and easier because tools exist that can generate “good enough” output.

For me, the deeper issue is control. With client work, I do the work, hand over the assets to the client, get paid once, and then have to go and find the next project. I’m left with a portfolio piece, perhaps, but nothing much that compounds or belongs to me in any meaningful business sense. The only hope of repeating revenue is client loyalty, and that is disappearing rapidly IMO. That makes income feel unreliable, and after years of it, I’m finding it stressful and wearing.

I’m curious whether other freelance/self-employed creatives in this group feel the same.

Are you still happy building your career/business around client or agency work? Or are you also looking for another model — a side income, your own product, your own audience, or a way to build something that isn’t entirely dependent on the next client saying yes?

Genuinely interested in both sides. If you’re happy with the client model, I’d like to understand how / why. If you’re not, I’d like to know what you’re thinking of doing about that?

I spend more time untangling my finances than doing the work that earns me money. Every month I'm reconciling invoices, figuring out which expenses were business related, and trying to remember why I made certain purchases. I thought running a freelance LLC would mean more freedom but the admin side has become its own part time job. The worst part is I still don't fully trust my numbers when tax time comes around.

How are you handling yours? CPA? DIY?

Quick post, we’re bringing on a couple of devs.

We’re a small team, pretty laid-back, and we try to keep things practical. No heavy process, no constant meetings. Just people building things and helping each other out when needed.

Looking for someone with at least a3 year of experience who’s comfortable getting their hands dirty, building features, fixing issues, improving performance, that kind of work.

We’re not strict on stack:

* Could be frontend, backend, or full-stack

* Use what you’re good at (JS, Python, etc.)

* Expect to work with APIs, systems, and real-world problems

What you get:

* Remote setup (Prefer EU/US/CA)

* Flexible hours (seriously)

* $37–$49/hour depending on experience

* Part-time or full-time, both are fine

If this sounds like something you’d enjoy, send a quick intro and your location 📍

Freelance designer working with clients in LATAM and Europe. They all message in Spanish/Portuguese on WhatsApp. Any good translator tools?

From proposal to payment in one seamless flow. Dispach is the all-in-one platform built for freelancers who care about how they present to clients.

Check out the free demo it's kinda sick actually. I made a IOS app with a partnering web app for freelancers or just out here trying to take some extra work. Targeted towards developers, creatives, law whatever you want. Build is being tweaked a lot. App is still in beta and so is the website - I'm just seeing what if any interest there is.

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Been freelancing for 6 years now. I keep getting asked how I make myself "attractive" to clients, so here it is.

Basically, if your pitch sounds like a menu, clients bounce.

For a long time my opener was basically: “i do websites, Shopify, web apps, a bit of design.” It felt safer. It also gave people zero clue why they should pick me.

What started working was forcing everything into this shape:

“I help [specific type of business] get [specific result] without [specific headache].”

Examples from my own notes (steal the structure, not the niche):

• “I help service businesses turn ‘we need a new site’ into more booked calls (and fewer 2-week feedback loops).”
• “I help ecommerce teams ship landing pages fast when dev is slammed.”
• “I help local companies fix the 3 things that make their site look untrustworthy.”

Then i updated the places people actually read:

• LinkedIn headline: outcome + who it’s for. Not “freelance developer.”
• About section: 3 bullets: who you work with, what you deliver, how you work.
• Portfolio: stop listing tech. Write “problem → what i changed → what improved.” Even if the “improved” is just “cut support tickets” or “sales team stopped complaining.”

Practical trick: pick ONE primary offer for 30 days, and make everything point at it. You can still take other work, but don’t advertise it.

(i rewrote my LinkedIn with Google Docs, Grammarly, and Resumeworded open in tabs. Noticed when my wording sounded vague, generic, or way too focused on tasks instead of outcomes. Then i had two friends roast the wording after that.)

I didn’t get better at the work. I got easier to say yes to.

What’s your current one-liner when someone asks what you do, and what kind of client keeps misunderstanding it?

I have a very unique background to offer. I went to grad school for counseling psychology and have a 5 year career in SaaS selling. I'm struggling so much knowing how to translate that into my own business. All I hear is coaching or consulting. It seems like those are the only 2 things I can do and the market in that is so saturated. Is there really no other options out there? 

I was thinking of hiring someone to make the art for the cover, but I don't know if you only need the cover page and not the back cover for an ebook. Should I include the back cover and the spine in case I try to make a physical book out of it? How much would it cost?

Last tax season I owed way more than I expected. Not because I wasn't making money — because I kept looking at my bank balance and thinking "I'm doing fine" without accounting for the 30%+ that wasn't really mine.

The problem with every budgeting app I tried is they show you your income as if it's all yours. But as a freelancer, that Stripe deposit isn't your full paycheck — a chunk of it belongs to the IRS before you even touch it.

So I built something that shows your finances the way they actually are:

• Income displayed after estimated taxes based, not before
• Automatically calculates what to set aside your tax reserve as money comes in and tracks your EOY reserves
• Tracks your real spendable budget each month based on 12 month average
• Connects to your bank to auto-categorize everything with manual overrides

I built this for myself, but thought maybe others would find it useful or want to try it out. Do you have a system for handling taxes throughout the year, or do you just figure it out in April?

Hey cool cats,

I've been freelancing for close to a year now and the last client I was serving tried to haggle me down to £900 for one month's worth of work despite me having to work UK and SF hours. (Podcast bookings, LI socials, founder ghostwriting, client management and more)

A few friends of mine have said just stopping all work immediately was irresponsible especially in this market but I feel that the amount offered, for time and effort simply not worth it (plus I have savings so I'm not too bothered)

They haven't paid me despite haggling me down LOL and they're not UK based so naturally no recourse and I'm not desperate to chase

For the hivemind - Is it better to just keep working next time? This space is rather small so I don't really want to ruin relationships either, how do you all navigate this?

As I continue to see modern content, I get a sense that people are deciding to stay or scroll away within seconds. Short form content has conditioned audiences to view content at lightning speed, and I genuinely feel that attention is now one of the most difficult aspects to attain on the internet.

What is really intriguing is that attention is no longer solely about the quality of the content being created. Even when a video has good content, if the hook, pacing, and storytelling fail to capture the viewer's attention immediately, the viewer may not stick around to view the entire piece of content. As a result, today's creators and editors appear to be focusing more on retaining audiences and understanding audience psychology rather than simply visual aesthetics.

Do you believe that short-form content has permanently impacted audience behaviour in regard to how they consume content or this is simply an interim point in which content producers are modifying their approach to create longer-form content?

Hey everyone,
Me and my friends have been freelancing for a few months now and I'm struggling with something that seems basic but is surprisingly hard: knowing how much money is actually mine at the end of each month.
Right now I´m doing this manually because we couldn´t fine a good tool to do this automatically.
Some tools are not designed for irregular incomes.

I would like to know how do you guys handle this? Specifically:

- How do you separate business vs personal expenses?
- How do you calculate how much to set aside for taxes each month?
- Do you have a system to know your "real" take-home number after everything?

I´m all ears and I look forward for your comments.

Appreciate your answers!

How is the crowd going to cope since AI is going to become humanlike with a consciousness closely imitating ours, as stated by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. It is going to be so in the next 18 months.

What do you think can be the future of content creators 18 months later?

Any thoughts?