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Ask HN: How do you beef up your freelancing profile?

1 points by iamsidd2k7 ↗ HN
I have been freelancing for about 9-10 months for now. When looking out for new work clients always request to see sample code. Now here is the deal: I am under NDA for most of the development work I do. In that case how can I truly demonstrate my skills. How have fellow programmers coped up with this situation?

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ianstallings
I create applications from scratch and use them as portfolio material. For instance I have a custom iOS app that shows my experience working with video, images, audio, shaders, face detection, HLS, networking, etc. I show this to them when we meet and if they want to see the code I'll invite them to my git repo and we can go over it together.
iamsidd2k7
Interesting, now multiples times I have had client not consider this "Real World" enough. :) How would you go about handling such a client?
ianstallings
Well for those you can fall back on your references and high-level descriptions of your work. I have quite a few projects that are private/enterprise applications that will never see the light of day outside of their domain. Unfortunately I have to describe these and rely on references. It's the only way I can legally do it.