Start with content and cafes, build a quality freelance community on your own

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As the sharing economy becomes the norm, the number of freelancers in China is about to exceed 10 million. Getting rid of office buildings and offices and deciding where to work and what to do has become the choice of more and more designers, programmers and freelance writers. In this multi-billion-level market, players cut in from different areas to build platforms between enterprises and freelancers, such as Zhu Bajie net and Dagou Dazhi, and provide shared office space for freelancers, such as SOHO China and WeWork.

The rise of freelance satisfies the unwillingness of today's young people to be bound. But in fact, most people yearn for freelance and do not dare to try, because freelancers do not have a fixed company, colleagues, lack of communication and learning places, all rely on their own exploration, to a certain extent, will affect personal career development.

Based on this pain point, Chen Jian set up a freelancer community to work alone, so that freelancers can freely communicate and learn on a stand-alone platform. Solo invite people with telecommuting experience to post posts in the community and share their experiences and experiences to those who want to become freelancers or newly freelancers. In addition to the preparatory work, you can also exchange and learn some problems, methods and skills in your work.

Chen Jian told Lianyun.com (Wechat: ilieyun) that there are many outsourcing platforms built in China for designers and programmers, but this kind of outsourcing platform essentially serves demand publishers, not really freelancers. And working alone is to serve freelancers, provide quality content, and build a freelance community.

In order to make it easy for freelancers to find a suitable place to work, WeChat Mini Programs launched a small radar alone, and the product development was inspired by a warehouse at GitHub, which contains information about cafes and comments that contributors have visited in the field. On a stand-alone mini radar, freelancers can find nearby cafes and office space suitable for work, as well as check in comments, submit new locations, check updates, comments, and so on. At present, it has covered more than 150 cafes in Beijing, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Wuhan.

Stand-alone small radar

In the future, singles will also try to work with offline coffee shops and bakeries to launch peripheral products such as stickers. Select some coffee shops and bakeries offline and examine their office environment, such as whether they have sockets and comfortable chairs. Consult with qualified cafe owners and put a Work Friendly sticker on the door. Freelancers are welcome to come to the office. At the same time, users are also encouraged to communicate offline, such as salons, seminars and so on.

Lianyun.com (Wechat: ilieyun) learned that projects focused on the freelancer community also include Moshe, a joint office social platform, based on offline physical office space. The freelance community is similar to working alone in the morning and night, but varies in terms of content quality. Compared with these competitive products, the advantage of working alone is that, because it is not a commercial platform, it can better control the quality of content in the community and strive for high quality and valuable content.

Working alone is a product developed by Chen Jian in his spare time. Currently, he works as a back-end developer in an artificial intelligence media company. Another founder, Jiang Nan, was born in a traditional industry and assisted Chen Jian in operation-related work.

Internal testing began in early June this year and will be officially opened in July. Next, Chen Jian plans to invite more content contributors to accumulate high-quality content for the community.

There is currently no need for financing for the project.

Project: go it alone

Website: dangann.com