Is C#, ASP.NET suitable for freelancing?

Dmitry2016-04-24 16:01:52

Freelance

Dmitry, 2016-04-24 16:01:52

Hello! Tell me, is C#, ASP.NET suitable for freelancing? Is there a demand from customers for people writing in C#, ASP.NET, or do you mainly need js, css, html?

Answer the question

In order to leave comments, you need to log in

9 answer(s)

OnYourLips, 2016-04-24
@OnYourLips

Poor fit (worse than other tech sets).
Not popular in freelancing. But the office is very popular.

trevoga_su, 2016-04-25
@trevoga_su

I was always amused to listen to phrases in the style of "office migration to freelance" I guess
we live in different worlds.
a serious office will NEVER move to freelance. daily it is necessary to poke each other's monitor, to advise and consult.

StanEgo, 2016-04-28
@StanEgo

I have been living on this for 11 years, starting from the ancient rentacoder.com, to the current freelancer.com, upwork.com, etc. And just like then, the advice is the same. Colleagues, the market has already balanced everything. Yes, for .NET it is smaller. But there is less competition. Choose what you like. And try to go against typical trends (as an example - not to do what everyone can do, but to focus on special skills like BDD, DevOps, etc.). And be carried away by maniacs.

Dmitry Pavlov, 2016-04-26
@dmitry_pavlov

I'm not complaining :) For context - my answers to freelancing questions.
In general, enterprise skills (like .NET and java) are of course inferior in terms of demand in the freelance market to such as JS development or mobile development. But if you're into web dotnet, most likely you've already been forced to learn some JS frameworks and/or mobile development with Xamarin (which, by the way, was recently taken over by Microsoft and is now free). On the market (as @opium rightly said) there are enough small clients with their startup projects, where the ASP.NET MVC + Web API + JS bundle is quite common. Regarding CSS / HTML / JS - I consider these skills to be satellite ones and, of course, you need to have them if you are doing web development in the .NET stack.

Dmitry, 2016-04-28
@saDam

I work for upwork, there's plenty of work to do. In my experience, .net developers are usually looking not for $10-50 tasks, but for long-term cooperation, or it just happens to me.
I described in one of the questions how I started: How to start working remotely?
But despite all the charms of .net development for the office, I would advise you to go to the js stack anyway. Now js alternatives are very popular.
AngularJS, React, socket.io, nodejs etc... I
was talking to one of the customers who has 50k+ spent on upwork. We started the project with a backend on Sharp but went completely to js. And in general, for me, the move from C # to js is one of the most popular.
I would advise you the following: if you want to start freelancing, then feel free to start on the stack that you have, but if you are learning C#, then it’s better to go to js.
If we consider the financial side, then the sharp will most likely be in the black, but only because there are fewer C # developers than js developers. Work for .net is also less, hence raising prices for the cost of work.
I usually work at a price of 20-30$/h. This is not the highest rate per hour, but not the lowest either. People are ready to write code in Sharpe and for less. Indians have prices for $5/h.

xtozna, 2016-04-28
@xtozna

Some customers are simply not interested in what you write the site on (and they don’t understand). For them, the main thing is the result. In such cases, I write in ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET WebAPI + AngularJS. The price of hosting with .NET is now quite cheap. Therefore, why not?

Puma Thailand, 2016-04-24
@opium

yes more than suitable office migration to freelancing is growing from year to year, in general, orders for asp no are quite common

Anton Izmailov, 2016-04-24
@WapGeaR

Why not? Freelancing is far from just js/css/html.
Feel free to try your hand, if you are a good specialist, then there will always be a job for you.

VZVZ, 2016-04-24
@VZVZ

> C#, ASP.NET, or do you mainly need js, css, html?
Almost every site has a back-end AND a front-end, not just a front-end. Even on a landing page without a back-end at all, there is at least sending an order by e-mail to the admin, and it cannot be implemented without a back-end.
> is C#, ASP.NET suitable for freelancing?
In my experience, if you are the only one writing a project from scratch, then no one really cares what your back-end is based on.
But ASP.NET in the case of landing is overkill, it will be easier for you to implement it yourself in PHP or some kind of python.
For a large online store, ASP.NET is already more real ...
And for a server - and even more ...