Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2025)

Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

Please only post if you are looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Small (2-5 person) agencies are fine, but recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

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jon_north

6 hours ago


14 comments

dang 4 hours ago

We got rid of the regular freelancer thread because most people were cross-posting between it and "Who Wants to Be Hired". So it's best to post there instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108940.

  • jon_north 3 hours ago

    I don't agree, so I reposted it. You don't have to post here if you don't like.

mbm 4 hours ago

SEEKING WORK - AI integration/implementation - Austin, TX & Worldwide Remote

Hi all, I'm a freelance AI consultant with 15 years of software engineering experience. I work with large companies, startups, and everything in between.

If you're beginning or considering an AI implementation in 2026, I'd love to chat. My specialities include: AI integration/implementation, complex backend development, APIs, AI strategy development, and legacy SaaS replacement.

Drop me a line. Happy to jump on a video call anytime to learn more about your needs.

Text: (512) 417-7608

Email: matt@goodsoftware.dev

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbmay/

Github: https://github.com/mzxrai

xl0 4 hours ago

  SEEKING WORK
  Location: Nomadic, Colombia at the moment
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: depends
  Technologies: PyTorch, Deep Learning, LLM,  Diffusion models, NumPy, JAX (a bit), CUDA | SvelteKit, TypeScript, tailwind, drizzle | DevOps: Linux (25 years), AWS, Docker, common sense
  URL: https://alexey.work/?ref=hn46109141
  Email: alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com
I'd love to get back into Deep Lerning (torch, cuda, etc, etc).

In my past lives: Linux kernel development, Molecular Biology masters, Electronics engineering in Shenzhen.

Some cool stuff:

https://github.com/xl0/lovely-tensors

https://lovely-docs.github.io/

skyriser 5 hours ago

  SEEKING WORK - iOS/macOS Developer - Worldwide

  Location: Montreal, Canada | Remote/Freelance/Contract
  Technologies: iOS/macOS (SwiftUI/Swift/UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C), Stock/Forex/Crypto APIs
  Web: http://chriscomeau.com
  Resume/CV: http://chriscomeau.com/resume
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiancomeau
  GitHub: https://github.com/chriscomeau
  Languages: English, French
  Email: chris.comeau@skyriser.com
purplewren 5 hours ago

SEEKING WORK | Full-Stack Development Agency | Remote (US)

Purple Wren Digital is a South Carolina-based software agency specializing in full-stack web applications, e-commerce platforms, and mobile apps.

Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, React Native, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Golang, Rails, Encore.dev

What we build:

Custom web applications, E-commerce platforms & integrations, Mobile apps (React Native)

We've spent 3 years helping startups and enterprise clients ship real products, from e-reader mobile apps to complex retail platforms with multi-region logic. We're a small team that moves fast without cutting corners.

Website: https://www.purplewrendigital.com/, Email: hello@purplewrendigital.com, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/purple-wren-digital/

seanwilson 5 hours ago

SEEKING WORK | UX/UI & web design

Portfolio: https://seanw.org/ Live example projects: https://checkbot.io/ https://inclusivecolors.com/

Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m used to time zone differences and async work)

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I help startups with the UX/UI and web design of their products. This includes web apps, websites, landing pages, copywriting, and I can assist with frontend development where needed. My background of launching my own products and being a full stack developer helps me create practical designs that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort, and performance. I work to fixed price quotes for self-contained projects.

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The best live example of my work is Checkbot (https://checkbot.io/), a browser extension that tests websites for SEO/speed/security problems. The entire project is my own work including coding the extension itself, UX/UI design, website design (the homepage is optimised to load in 0.7 seconds, 0.3MB data transferred), marketing, website copy, and website articles on web best practices.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 80K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

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I have 10+ years of experience, including a PhD in software verification and 5+ years working for myself helping over 25 companies including Just Eat, Triumph Motorcycles and Fogbender (YC W22). See my website for testimonials, portfolio and more: https://seanw.org

Skills: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OCaml, Java, Python, C, analytics, WCAG accessibility, website SEO/speed optimisation.

Note: For large projects, my partner usually assists me in the background (I’m working on starting a design studio with her in the future)

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Email sw@seanw.org with a short description of 1) your project 2) how you think I can help 3) the business outcome you’re looking for and 4) any deadlines. I can get back to you in one working day to arrange a call to discuss a quote and how we can work together!

opudrovs 5 hours ago

SEEKING WORK

Location: Germany (Dusseldorf)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Mantine UI, Tailwind CSS, shadcn, Material UI, Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, NestJS, PostgreSQL, various auth solutions (Supabase Auth, Auth0, Firebase Auth etc.), Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, Swift, Unity, various analytics and monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Pendo etc.), OpenAI API, AI agents.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UVHNlrDhIZwHV2N0XmGhOluLguZ...

Email: opudrovs@gmail.com

Available for remote work worldwide, very flexible across time zones. Looking for permanent or contract positions.

Hi! I’m Olga, an experienced software engineer looking for frontend or fullstack projects.

I have experience building greenfield projects and complex features that “just work,” as well as diving into complex legacy codebases, fixing “unfixable” bugs, and performing major refactoring.

In addition to React/Next.js and Node/Express.js development, I also have experience with cloud-native workflows (Golang + Kubernetes), OpenAI API integration and agentic workflows, native iOS development, and game development. Thanks to my multi-platform experience, I can help you port large products across different platforms.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-pudrovska/

My contributions to Weave GitOps (React/Golang Kubernetes dashboard project): https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops/commits?author=op... https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops-enterprise/commit...

My latest fullstack code samples: https://github.com/opudrovs/react-api-data-sample/ https://github.com/opudrovs/nestjs-demo/

ska80 5 hours ago

SEEKING WORK

  Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
  Remote: Yes (US or EU time zones if needed)
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Java, Common Lisp, C, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ
  Résumé/CV: upon request
  Email: ska80 [at] gmx [dot] com
craigtp 3 hours ago

SEEKING WORK

Location: Liverpool, England

Remote: Yes (Remote only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/EventStoreDB/Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, CQRS/Event Sourcing, Azure/AWS.

Résumé/CV: https://craigtp.co.uk/cv

Email: craig [at] craigtp.co.uk

Hi. I'm Craig. I'm an experienced Senior Software Engineer, Systems Architect and Microsoft Certified Professional with a passion for software development.

I work primarily, but not exclusively, with Microsoft technologies and the .NET / .NET Core frameworks, leading complex and challenging enterprise software development projects to successfully deliver robust, secure, scalable and efficient software solutions, encompassing over 20 years of experience in the field.

I'm passionate about distributed systems design, CQRS and event sourcing and a proponent of domain-driven design to ensure that solutions are laser-focused on solving real business problems. I'm an open source enthusiast and advocate using the best and most appropriate tools available, providing for an effective and pragmatic solution that delivers genuine and quantifiable business value.

Throughout my career I've helped numerous businesses of varying sizes in varying industries get their technology investment right and I can do the same for you.

Recent projects include:

+ Successfully lead a multi-team effort to re-engineer the core domain of a legacy monolithic application to a suite of well-designed, modern microservices utilising Domain-Driven Design, CQRS & Event Sourcing where appropriate for one of Africa's leading FinTech companies allowing them to scale their transaction processing from over 1 million active customers to over 10 million whilst simultaneously reducing their cloud spend by over 30%.

+ Successfully delivered large section of an ambitious project to re-engineer a number of monolithic applications to cloud-native, event-driven distributed services for a leading hospitality software provider as part of a company-wide effort to modernise entire software estate including training and mentoring staff on event-driven architecture and distributed system design.

+ Successfully designed & delivered large, global SaaS product to manage and automate music royalty collection and payment for one of the UK's largest and most demanding independent music publishers including full cloud geo-distribution & redundancy to ensure high availability & reliability for the worldwide client base.

+ Successfully lead project to develop industry leading anti-motor fraud web application and API with advanced OLAP & OLTP system and data warehouse including one of Europe's largest anti-fraud databases for a Top 40 UK law firm.

poeticsilence 3 hours ago

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: OK

Willing to Relocate: No

Programming Languages: Ruby, Scala, Javascript, Python, TypeScript, Haskell, Scheme

Programming Strengths: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Engineering, Programming Language Theory, Type Theory, No-Code, AI&Prompt Engineering, Complex & Unusual Domains (Healthcare, Fintech, Music, Arts, Sciences)

Frameworks, Databases & Tools: Vue, React, Rails, Flask, Postgres, HBase, MongoDB, Kafka, Jenkins, AWS, Docker

Other Skills: Leading Teams & Managing Projects, Productizing LLMs, Managing Interview Pipelines, Architecting & Implementing Greenfield Solutions, Education & Team Growth, Leading Communication and Coordination Between Stakeholders Across Teams and Organizational Silos

CV: Available Upon Request

Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com

I am a seasoned (>15 years experience) full-stack staff-level software engineer specializing in the backend, systems architecture, AI, platform engineering, internal tools, prototyping, and data engineering. In addition to strong programming and architectural skills, I'm a force multiplier for any team in either role through the three T's -- teaching, talking, and tooling. I also hold a US patent in the AI space.

In the past, I've taught a number of scientists and students to code in python; I've led and managed a number of high-impact engineering teams of up to 12; and pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for stream processing, data model and query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech. >10% of all medicare applications and millions of individuals currently flow through pioneering no-code systems I conceived and built and have ran in production for over a decade.

More recently, I've built a no-code automated form-filler; a no-code web scraper (and an AI for generating such scrapers from a spec and 1-3 example urls from a page); and a workflow engine for coordinating LLMs and other generative AI processes, and on top of this a platform for both minimizing hallucinations and working with documents that are far too large for existing context window inputs or outputs using a novel, patented process that I invented; and applied these tools to various contracted projects requiring analysis and and cross-checking of information and other forms of integrity across textual and video/audio corpus data in a variety of domains (fiction and non-fiction).

I am also an improvisational pianist, published poet, and I've created novel algorithms and tools for studying and composing both music and poetry, which I have given a talk on at a recent functional programming conference.

I have extensive experience working for and running startups, software consulting shops, with some mid-sized company engineering experience as well; these give me a unique insight into speaking with customers and internal stake-holders, translating between engineering and other departments, gathering requirements, aligning stake-holders across departments on a vision and attainable timeline, and architecting/building/taking ownership over significant internal and customer-facing areas of responsibility.

If any of the above seems like a match for you and your organization or project, don't hesitate to reach out. I am available for both short- and long-term contracts.

GauntletWizard 3 hours ago

SEEKING WORK | US | Remote OK

I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I can help you build a Platform Engineering practice from the very beginning. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard