Questions tagged [freelancing]
BEFORE USING THIS TAG, PLEASE NOTE THAT CAREER-ADVICE QUESTIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC! Questions for professional programmers who are often contracted out for various positions rather than being part of a company.
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What is the best way to send SMS through my own SIM card? [closed]
TLDR: I'm looking for advice on the most straightforward method to set up an SMS system using my own SIM card, without relying on SMS service providers like Twilio or MessageBird. Currently, I am ...
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2 votes
0 answers
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How to back out of a website development job that's way out of my league [duplicate]
TLDR: project scope has crept beyond my capabilities and I need an early exit strategy (in both parties' best interest) Early last year I took on a gig to develop a web application for a financial ...
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-4 votes
1 answer
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When making websites for clients, what's the best way to handle payments that clients pay for, but you design?
When making a website for a client, how do you deal with payments (hosting, theme, plugins, software, ect) when you are setting everything up for them, though the client will be paying for the systems/...
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0 votes
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Change Requests Billing
I have a website developed for my client, and he's currently on an annual maintenance billing for the same post development pushed to production, that he'd paid me for the development charges ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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Estimating How Many Hours A Project SHOULD have taken
I am the senior developer at a company I work for and we have rapidly added many other developers and contractors. Our company is growing and that is great! Recently however, I have been tasked with ...
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2 votes
3 answers
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Getting started with outsourcing small scientific computation tasks to online freelancers
I have to compute small mathematical problems for my work. My main work is to develop and solve these problems analytically. I then have to compute these problems in mathematica, but this is not my ...
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1 vote
3 answers
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Is Professional Code Review/Mentoring Offered? [closed]
I'm a newer developer who has worked on some personal projects as well as non-profit/charity projects. However, I seem to be the most "senior" developer in my circle, meaning, most guys come to me for ...
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6 votes
4 answers
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How and when to choose between Data Consolidation/Data Integration and Data Synchronisation?
I am having some confusion as to how to decide what to choose between Data Consolidation/Data Integration and Data Synchronisation? I know that: Data Consolidation/Data Integration: refers to the ...
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2 votes
3 answers
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Is there a way to infer a task's cost using Story Points or something else in Scrum?
We are a bunch of freelancers working together making websites and apps and we starting using Scrum recently. We're enjoying Scrum and its transparency but we're encountering a problem with the budget ...
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1 answer
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Sharing code with API vendor for review without giving them access to the server or repo
A private company allowed me to use their API to make REST API calls (using Basic Authentication) in my application's server side. They also asked to see my implementation before I can go live. From ...
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0 votes
2 answers
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How escrow works on software projects? [closed]
My understanding of escrow, as it is used in software projects between a "client" (commissioning the software/app) and a "contractor" (developer; provider of application services) is as follows: The ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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How to define fixed priced software projects and how to argue what is inside scope and what is outside scope? [closed]
So here is what happened The customer gave me a list of things he wanted to have. It is a funding website. So to start a funding project he wanted to have certain fields in the "create/edit funding ...
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5 votes
2 answers
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What document/artifact should alert me when an old requirement changes the scope of new one?
I developed a software application a year ago, I delivered it with a simple documentation. For example, it has an special and complicated login system as requirement. Now the customer calls and ask ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Demonstrate or Report a project to Client while freelancing
I have started freelancing for couple of weeks and have done few projects. While doing it I found myself in risky situation when client ask progress and also want to see it done. which means I have ...
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3 votes
0 answers
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Client and access to Github history [closed]
About a year ago, our company hired a development company to build a mobile app we had been longing to do, but never got the time to develop. With previous bad luck with outsourcing, we got it on ...
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