Hey guys and girls,
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted in this forum. I have actually switched to the other side – I now do iOS development and like it more. Swift, a modern language coupled with iOS designs patterns simply feels natural to me.
I have developed a few iOS apps now, working with all the important technologies, and comfortably so; Core Data (and other persistent storage such as Realm, NSCoder, JSON, file reading and writing, etc.), local notifications, navigation and tab controllers, different types of view such as UITableView, UIStackView, and UICollectionView, working with external REST APIs, etc. I can comfortably, easily, quickly create working prototypes of most simple apps.
Out of the few apps I have developed, I published only one of them and it has made nearly $600 in sales. I have published over 12 Android apps and never got that much. I just published a second iOS app and am looking to publish more in the near future.
Now, regardless of how much my future iOS apps may sell, I am thinking I could get substantially more by doing freelance and contract work. However, I do not want to compete in the race-to-the-bottom-pricing via freelancing over the internet. I live in the United States in a city with loads of small businesses. I would like to start working as an iOS developer within my city (or locally). I am a full-time student in pre-engineering courses and think I could make more than working a minimum-wage job.
Does anyone here have any experience doing freelance/contract work for mobile development? Any pointers/tips/advice for someone looking to get some initial contracts? There are quite a few “Meetups” in my area for internet marketers, entrepreneurs, small-business people, etc. and I was thinking I could go to those and network myself (with the added benefit of learning even more about marketing and business, etc.).