What is one way to move from a full-time developer to freelance and earn more than 10 million yen a year?
Freelancers who find and earn jobs on their own can sometimes earn more than working as a member of a particular organization. Developer Caleb Porzio explains one of the ways to become a freelance software developer and increase your income.
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Mr. Porzio originally worked as a full-time developer at software development company Tighten , and at that time he earned $ 90,000. This amount was a 'steady' amount for Mr. Porzio, and he said that he did not have to reduce his assets due to his wife's income.
Porzio then left Tighten to become a freelancer, developing Alpine JS and Livewire . It was the GitHub sponsor that Porzio, who became a freelancer, saw as a source of income. Since Porzio was developing open source software, it was difficult to make money from the software itself by its nature, and the GitHub sponsor in the form of 'getting personal support' seemed to be perfect for Porzio. is. However, of course, the number of people who support it is less than the number of people who use the software, and the actual annual income at the beginning was about 6800 dollars (about 870,000 yen).
Next, Mr. Porzio implemented his own software provision method 'sponsorware'. This is to first develop the software and then provide it only to those who support it, and after the number of supporters reaches a certain number, open source it. It's a simple method, but it worked incredibly well, and Porzio has succeeded in increasing annual revenue by $ 11,000 with this method.
However, Porzio said that this method is 'great but requires a constant source of ideas,' and Porzio sought an alternative, long-term sustainable method.
The decisive boost to Porzio's income was 'to show you how to use the software in detail.' Porzio posted a screencast of the basic usage of Livewire that he created, and added a link to the video to the existing document. Then, after a few weeks, I created a new 'private screencast group' exclusively for GitHub sponsors. We released a video of how to use the software in more detail exclusively for sponsors.
With this method, Mr. Porzio said that he increased his annual profit by about 80,000 dollars (about 10 million yen) in 90 days. Porzio describes these tasks as 'it's fun to build your favorite software for your favorite community.' In addition, Mr. Porzio advises other developers to 'gather supporters hard and provide consistent compensation' and 'do not set the amount of support too small'.
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