The latest articles on DEV Community by Andreas Galster (@andreasgalster). https://dev.to/andreasgalster https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F72477%2Fb53a3e23-9169-4124-926a-ccb089e1ec83.jpg https://dev.to/andreasgalster en Andreas Galster Sun, 03 Jun 2018 05:42:27 +0000 https://dev.to/andreasgalster/raise-freelance-price-for-hard-to-find-skillset-such-as-polymer-and-webcomponents-1kk0 https://dev.to/andreasgalster/raise-freelance-price-for-hard-to-find-skillset-such-as-polymer-and-webcomponents-1kk0 <p>We're currently trying to find our first gigs on upwork, I'm super strong in Polymer (webcomponents) and frontend in general. It's a very rare skill because not that many people are doing webcomponents yet and I've been doing it for 4+ years.</p> <p>I'm wondering if you can raise your prices higher than usual if you do something that's very much in demand, does it work, or does it just scare of potential customers? How do you approach it in the beginning? Should you go with normal rates, or does a specific skillset that's hard to find justify to raise the prices?</p> <p>WDYT? e. g. meteor developers in the Philippines are paid quite well because it's super hard to find them.</p> <p>title: "Raise freelance price for hard to find skillset such as Polymer and webcomponents?"<br> published: true<br> description: ""</p> <h2> tags: webcomponents, polymer </h2> Andreas Galster Fri, 25 May 2018 04:10:23 +0000 https://dev.to/andreasgalster/advice-on-getting-first-clients-for-an-outsourcing-dev-shop-in-the-philippines-df9 https://dev.to/andreasgalster/advice-on-getting-first-clients-for-an-outsourcing-dev-shop-in-the-philippines-df9 <p>Hi everyone, we are planning to open a dev shop in the Philippines. I have a few friends that are available for gigs, though we're also training an intern to become our first employee right now as the primary first employee. </p> <p>Our goal is to get our first small projects in the next weeks, small and simple enough so that the intern can do them with my help and supervision, whereas I keep on focusing on products we're building for longer-term. </p> <p>I'm sure others have done something like this before. We want to focus on building web apps via fullstack JS. </p> <p>How did you get your first clients? Do you recommend to just go with upwork/freelancer, etc., actually run some ads, try to ask friends if they know someone, etc? </p> <p>What worked for you to get started? Thanks :)</p> outsourcing devshop discuss Andreas Galster Sat, 12 May 2018 01:52:16 +0000 https://dev.to/andreasgalster/what-are-the-best-out-of-the-box-solutions-for-a-commenting-system-f13 https://dev.to/andreasgalster/what-are-the-best-out-of-the-box-solutions-for-a-commenting-system-f13 commentschatsdk