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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-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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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