Movie Theaters (http://bit.ly/SwedyD) shows info about latest movies and movie theaters which plays them.
I am not sure what will I be able to charge clients as I don’t have professional development experience, and also living in India doesn’t help things I guess.
My big question is, will I be a fool to try freelancing at this stage and with my experience?
You have an application with more than a million downloads in the Android market. And your Juicy Fun game looks very nice. I'd say you have a fairly solid portfolio.
Do you write all these applications all by yourself?
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I have always wanted to do freelancing but refrained from it.
Below are my skills,
Official: I got 5 years of experience in various fields,
1 year as manual tester for a Mainframe/JSP based application.
2 years as an automation test engineer, which is a fancy way of writing scripts to do automatic tests.
2 years as a tools developer for an automation framework, work involves writing java/Oracle based tools to do a specific task.
Non Official: . 2 years learning to code and worked on basic android applications. . 2 years on iOS ranging from games to apps.
Side Projects:
Android:
Personal Finance Calculator (http://bit.ly/STAJ8n) helps you to calculate Loan Interest rate.
Baby Names (http://bit.ly/STAJ8n)Provides List of Baby names and their meaning
Mobile Number Tracker(http://bit.ly/STAIkI) provides caller info based on the mobile number (Only India).
Mobile Number Tracker US (http://bit.ly/PGakKz)
iOS Game:
Juicy Fun (http://bit.ly/Ub7IRv) physics game
Atom Ace (http://bit.ly/UxZ6F9) a different kind of puzzle.
iOS App:
London Tube Map (http://bit.ly/QqAXo7) shows london tube statues.
Movie Theaters (http://bit.ly/SwedyD) shows info about latest movies and movie theaters which plays them.
I am not sure what will I be able to charge clients as I don’t have professional development experience, and also living in India doesn’t help things I guess.
My big question is, will I be a fool to try freelancing at this stage and with my experience?
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Customers will rarely go looking for a shopping of skills such as JSP, automation testing, Java, Oracle etc.
Instead, they'll say 'I want a website to do X' or 'I want an application to do Y'.
A lot of the time, they didn't even care what you use or how you do it.
Your set of published apps in the relatively hot mobile space puts you in a good situation in this regard.
The first step would be to build a portfolio of your work.
I just bought a domain. I will build my portfolio and blog more. Thanks.
"My big question is, will I be a fool to try freelancing at this stage and with my experience?"
No, at least not based on the tech experience - you've done a hell of a lot more than some people I've sub-contracted work out to.
The bigger issue will be your attitude and approach. Treat 'freelancing' as professionally as any other engagement and you'll be fine.
No, you won't be a fool if you try.
You have an application with more than a million downloads in the Android market. And your Juicy Fun game looks very nice. I'd say you have a fairly solid portfolio.
Do you write all these applications all by yourself?
Ya, i do all of the design/code/test of the those applications/games. My designing skills are not so good :D.
you have to know that by yourself.
you'll never know for sure if you don't try it.
Am bit cautious on taking the leap, as there seems to be lot of ambiguity over the earning potential of a freelancer.