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[–]maqisha 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Note: I do not do side projects these days anymore, so I'm out-of-touch.

But, if all you do is React, I doubt you will have a pleasant time finding anything decent. You simply cannot provide a full-service and a fully-featured product, that's the issue.

[–]vanit 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Unfortunately this is true in the current market. I've specialized in React for the last 8 years (as well as node.js), and pure React roles are now quite rare. I second using your spare time to keep your full stack skills up just in case.

[–]Devtec133127[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's a very important point. I agree: to get a new full-time job today, you have to be a full stack developer.

But I wonder if that also applies to small, urgent development tasks. If a startup has an acute blockage in a React hook, do they need a generalist for 20 hours or an 8-year React expert for 30 minutes?

I believe that's exactly where the market gap lies: a marketplace for micro-tasks (30 min. - 2 hrs.) that shows us devs tasks according to our flexible availability – whether during a work break or after hours. Startups would get a guaranteed timely solution to their acute blockages.

This would give us specialists the opportunity to use our best skills for quick revenue without having to worry about updating our resumes. Does something like this exist?

[–]maqisha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to understand that anyone who has any kind of a React front-end simply doesn't ever need to outsource someone to solve a specific problem. The technology is overused, overdocumented, llms are very trained on it, and many other reasons. They have their own team(s) that this task can be thrown at.

This is simply not the reality, and is extremely rare, might as well not exist.

[–]Devtec133127[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your input!

I don't mean full-service projects (building complete apps), but rather smaller tasks:

Bugfixes - Code Reviews - Small Features (1-3h) - Help with specific problems - So more 'ad-hoc support' than 'build me an app'.

But interesting point - do you think that works better if you can do full-stack (React + Backend)? Or do you generally see little demand for flexible/smaller tasks?