What is the most common freelancing experience in your experience as a web developer?

Question

Freelance

Slightly plunged into the world of freelancing, made the first orders, it was a parser and bots for VK. Everything went well, and now I want to know, from your personal experience - what is most common in freelancing now? I enjoy creating bots, parsers, various scripts working with API (mainly VK). I want to develop in some different directions, especially which ones come more often on freelance (to gain experience and money). What would you recommend to start writing, what kind of tasks happen more often? I note that I own the Yii2 framework, but writing websites is hell for me personally, I don’t like this activity. I love writing scripts

Answer 1

WP, Joomla, layout for 3 kopecks, work with someone else's code of dubious quality.
IMHO, the best freelancing strategy for developers is to learn any framework or CMS at a decent level, create a portfolio and take those and only those orders that are related to this system. This can be conditionally called "technological freelancing". Otherwise, you can burn out.
It is also desirable to take on only projects from scratch, without working with someone else's code - freelancing is almost always a very unpleasant experience.

Answer 2

damn what kind of questions go to the exchange and see the list of orders is still in the public domain

Answer 3

I note that I own the Yii2 framework, but writing websites is hell for me personally, I don’t like this activity.

So you do not own it, as well as the formation and understanding of architecture. (maybe it's just not for you...) I would
advise you to learn how to write good (asynchronous) classes (for data parsing and processing) using the new functions and methods of PHP7.
Those. search for the following combinations: "make a connector", "make an integration", "attach to...", "implement to a website...", "install a service..."

Answer 4

I make chats/video chats/applications on cordova (Web development). I have enough orders in this area so as not to take on something less interesting.

Answer 5

If you speak English - better go to upwork.com. Payment in dollars, and not 25 rubles / hour, but $ 25 / hour (which is natural, a lot).
Requests for writing scripts with a good hourly rate are better than those of Russian customers. The only possible problem is the language barrier.

Answer 6

You can choose what you like.
Well, if you don't swell with hunger.
I come across complex microservice backends - just the way I like it.
Just because I choose them.

Answer 7

Edit / redo.