Bootstrapping my third start up (Healthcare mobile s/w and IT) through offering myself as a start up consultant. Simple question, Do people want/need to see this here? I'm more than willing to share expertise with anyone, just offering great help for reasonable pay.
I haven't been keeping track of it, but is there still a "looking for/selling freelance work" thread that accompanies the "who's hiring" thread at the start of each month?<p>If so, that's probably the most appropriate place for it. (If not, you could start such a thread at the same time.)<p>There have been several front-page threads of people offering free office hours and/or some kind of free service, but even that got some argument over whether it might be too self-promoting of the posters.<p>Generally, there are <i>lots</i> of companies and individuals that want to sell services to HN users, but we really aren't interested in seeing them as posts unless it's something really ground-breaking in its own right.<p>[Edit: side note -- if you have lots of good advice to give to startups, you might offer it in discussions here -- this can give you a sort of portfolio to share with prospective clients. And in at least one case I know of, a frequent HN commenter was basically begged by many clients to start doing consulting like you're talking about, because he so clearly had advice worth sharing. YMMV.]