How to get started as a xhtml python mysql freelancer ?

[gert]

On May 26, 2:09 am, Paul McNett <p... at ulmcnett.com> wrote:
> gert wrote:
> > I made something that i was hoping it could make people happy enough
> > so i could make a living by providing support for commercial use of
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/dfo/
>
> > But in reality i am a lousy sales men and was wondering how you people
> > sell stuff as a developer ?
>
> In my experience, you don't make money by selling support unless you are
> a large company selling support for a large project or a wide array of
> projects. The people that will use your library will mostly be
> developers and not end-users, after all.
>
> To make money from things you develop, I think you need to take your
> library and either build an application that has wide appeal and sell
> that, or sell yourself as a custom developer that can build the
> application the customer needs, using the tools you are comfortable
> with. You can then build in the cost of developing your library that you
> will reuse for the custom applications.

And where do you find customers, most people i talk too fall a sleep
let alone understand when i say the word xhtml ?

> What does it do exactly.

Forum, shop, appointments, invoice, EAN13 barcode or just simple sql
statements web based. Code is very straight forward. Applications
included are just examples of what mod_python basically can do for you.