Day 8: How to get your first embedded freelance client?

How to get your first embedded freelance client?

Simple.

You hire yourself.

Pretend to be a client of yours.

As a client, ask your freelancer (which is yourself) to build a good enough project with a hypothetical business use case.

And as a freelancer, gather the requirements, design the hardware + software, calculate the cost, and pretend to charge yourself money, and deliver the complete end-to-end project.

Don’t forget to make thorough documentation (text, wiki, even video docs) explaining the entire project so your client (which is yourself) can understand it easily.

Send yourself an email to deliver the result.

Now, what you have is a great portfolio.

Then, share the project with the world (e.g. LinkedIn), and explain what you’ve done and describe your thought process.

Share some pictures, share the GitHub repo link, share the hardware design, screenshot it, share it with your network.

Share what you've learned from doing that project. Share your mistakes.

Spread them into probably 5 to 10 different posts.

Promote your stuff for free as hard as you can.

So when someone is interested in your work and wants to work with you, you don’t have to convince them.

But THEY have to convince you to work with them.

Finally, some ominous positivity for you:

You will be okay. You have no choice.

Everything will turn out fine. You cannot stop it.

You will succeed. It is inevitable.

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