How Much Do AI Freelancers Make?

Hello friends so I've done some AI freelancing myself and I also run a program called Lonely octopus where we teach people Ai and data skills and help them work on freelance projects from real companies so I have some idea of the AI freelancing landscape but I want to learn a bit more about these opportunities in AI freelancing figure out how much money they make see if it's worth it as a side gig or a main gig and share my experiences of working with AI Freelancers plus I guid some tips on how to become an AI freelancer if you're interested so I've been procrastinating on this for a little bit but Fiverr approach me asking if I'll work with one of their AI Freelancers to build a product which is the perfect opportunity so in this video I want to show you all how working with AI Freelancers work I decided for this project I wanted to build three mini study tools because I thought it could be useful for you all and because I've also built something very similar myself so I have a good gauge on how long it should take and how much work it should be this is what the finished product looks like so first we have a study plan Creator you type in your goal I want to learn AI skills to build AI apps using open AI assistance API I already know Python and how apis work so let's select a time frame let's say we have 10 hours to learn type of project we want this is a coding project and I prefer YouTube which is free resources to create a plan all right so this is the plan they have for us on Hour 1 to2 introduction Ai and open AI Hour 3: 4 understanding open a gpt3 this of course should be gpt3 or GPT 4 Hour 5 to 6 open ey API hour 7 to8 building AI apps and hours 9 to 10 Advanced topics and real world applications and it gives us some YouTube links for how we can tutorials that we can learn this with so it looks like some of the links are dead and there are different duplicates so it's something that we should definitely improve on in our next iteration but yeah the next little tool is explaining a concept for example maybe you're looking at building um something using dsst API from open Ai and you're looking through the documentation and you notice that there are some of these like there's get for the API uh there's post and you like might be curious what these requests means and how it works so you may go to explain a concept and ask can you explain to me how get post and things like that work can you suggest to me some resources to learn about this click so we can see explain concept get and post are two different types of HTTP methods this method is used to retrieve data from a server when you tap a URL into the browser you're sending a get request to the server for that web page in addition to get and post there are other httv methods like put delete patch Etc which I use to update delete and partially modify your resources respectively and then it lists some resources that you can use in order to learn how these work by the way I'll be sharing the entire code base for study bench so you can use that as a starting point if you want to start building your own AI applications or improve on this definitely tag me if you do that um especially on the prompt engineering Parts the back end is python specifically flask and your front end is your CSS HTML and JavaScript making use of some templates anyways last mini tool is building a project I want to build a project using open AI assistance API to create an assistant that can help me do research on specific topics I want to be able to use code to practice building the assistant and get a stepbystep guide to make assistant messages and threat please provide starter code for each step so a quick Google search I was able to get the documentation for the assistance API here's the documentation we're going to put 5 days and AI expert as the type of project build all right so let's see what we have here day one is to understand to open a API plan your project day two set up your Dev environment day three write basic code to interact with API day four Implement assistant logic and day five test and refine your assistant all right here are some starter code to help you get started import open AI here create assistant um I believe this should be in beta cuz it's still in beta right now your GPT model should be GPT 4 uh it looks like we do have of some of the system and users sending a message and Main not perfectly correct but a good starting point to be fair the AI Freelancers did not have that much time to debug and refine as you shall see

because we did run into some issues which I'll go into a little bit later but first let me show you the process of finding a freelancer all right so this is Fiverr and you can click on AI services and it shows you a bunch of different AI services that they have like AI development data content and generative AI in this case I was looking at AI development specifically AI applications and there was a lot of people that were here and I messaged a few of them I'm not going to tell you exactly who it is that I messaged here because I did not get their permission to write their name so just to respect their privacy and just in case my actual budget was $33,000 Max but I wanted to first like gauge how much money they would be charging I also know that this project shouldn't be too difficult working quickly it should take about a week but probably around 2 weeks so I was curious what they were going to pitch me this was the actual conversation for a thread where I describe what I need in terms of timeline and then also describing what it is that I wanted first tip to anybody who wants to work with AI Freelancers try to be as specific as possible in terms of what you want your outputs to look like anyways so a few of them responded back to me and it looked like they were quoting $2,500 to $3,000 USD another quick tip is that you should definitely sample a lot of different Freelancers to understand what the budget actually is and if you're non-technical try to get someone who is technical to give you a gauge for actually how much it should be and then I ended up going on a couple calls and ultimately chose a freelancer that I thought would be a good fit things started out pretty good he said that he could do all these things and he was really fast at responding so I was like oh this would be great and he said he'll be using open AI pine cone a link chain which wouldn't be my go-to choice this was back when Lang chain was a lot more relevant so just keep that in mind he sent me this nice scoping document and show me some of the designs as you notice that it's pretty different from what we ultimately ended up with because this is when we started having a little bit of difficulties we were supposed to check in on Milestones every week but then he was like oh like you know we can just checking at the end it's not that hard of a project so I was like sure okay I don't think it's that hard as well but towards the end he just told me that he can't actually do it which was super stressful because I had promised fiber that I would get this video out like a month ago so I was kind of like freaking out I was like oh my God like what should I do should I just build it myself so I went back and reached out to Fiverr again asking hey like this was the experience that I had what should I do and honestly Fiverr was really good at responding um they were just like look like sometimes these kind of things happen which I get and then they just told me to go find another AI freelancer so I'm like okay that was definitely an experience so another tip here is that if you are working with a freelancer do insist on doing weekly checkups with them and if you are becoming AI influencers insist on this as well like make sure you have your specs out um and check in with your client every single weeks just to make sure that everybody is on track for things anyways they told me to find another freelancer so I did by this time I had already lost a month of time so I quickly emailed a bunch of different Freelancers again same process and then jumped on a call with a few of them before landed on these people so I can't show their names this time because they didn't give me permission to do this um so I found these people and they were pretty awesome so it does say that they were handpicked by the fiber pro team so I was had my hopes up for this one and it showed me that they definitely had the skills to do this and they said that they can do AR projects as well so then we jumped on a call gave them my specs same process and I was like all right guys I know that this is really short notice but I really need to get this out ASAP and they were amazing so again like I know that this should be taking around like 2 weeks or so like a week to two weeks to build out but generally speaking as a software freelancer you should always do that like times two in terms of time cuz it's better to under promise and overd deliver so I totally get that but they were amazing and they're like don't worry about it we'll get it done within 2 weeks so we decided on a price which was $3,000 which was my Max budget so I did haggle a little bit their initial price was a little bit higher but it does seem like the pricing for this kind of project should be around like 2,500 to $3 to $4,000 um which is pretty good for like a week to two weeks of work so that's why I'm saying AI freelancing is a pretty lucrative gig and you're able to understand General web and app development how to do some prompt engineering and use apis like the open AI apis you are pretty much good to go and there's a lot of business use cases for this so anyways we started development almost immediately again super considerate of them because I did have a deadline to reach so they sent me over some figma designs we had a little bit of back and forth about it and we eventually settled on what the effect will be another tip if you're either working as AR Freelancers where you want to be an AR Freelancers try to put them into Milestone so this why they did a really good job at this so I exactly knew what it is that they would be delivering at what place and you also kind of hedge yourself because you're asking for half to payment up front yeah we pretty much went through the development um tweaked the prompts together a little bit and then did some of the testing to ultimately land on what we have here so there you have it that was the entire process like I said earlier I will be providing the entire code base that was being used completely free to you guys so that you can start building on top of this start tweaking it using this as a jumping off point um for optimizing something similar to this or if you want to build your own AI products so I'm not going to go through the full details of this code so this video isn't super long but let me know in the comments below if you guys would like to have a live stream in which we walk through this code and build some stuff on top of it I'll also link down below where you can try out this deployed project we are using gp4 Turbo right now but depending on how much traffic that we get we might decrease that to GPT 3. 5 so just a little bit of note there all right friends to end this project as promis I'm going to give you

Hello friends so I've done some AI freelancing myself and I also run a program called Lonely octopus where we teach people Ai and data skills and help them work on freelance projects from real companies so I have some idea of the AI freelancing landscape but I want to learn a bit more about these opportunities in AI freelancing figure out how much money they make see if it's worth it as a side gig or a main gig and share my experiences of working with AI Freelancers plus I guid some tips on how to become an AI freelancer if you're interested so I've been procrastinating on this for a little bit but Fiverr approach me asking if I'll work with one of their AI Freelancers to build a product which is the perfect opportunity so in this video I want to show you all how working with AI Freelancers work I decided for this project I wanted to build three mini study tools because I thought it could be useful for you all and because I've also built something very similar myself so I have a good gauge on how long it should take and how much work it should be this is what the finished product looks like so first we have a study plan Creator you type in your goal I want to learn AI skills to build AI apps using open AI assistance API I already know Python and how apis work so let's select a time frame let's say we have 10 hours to learn type of project we want this is a coding project and I prefer YouTube which is free resources to create a plan all right so this is the plan they have for us on Hour 1 to2 introduction Ai and open AI Hour 3: 4 understanding open a gpt3 this of course should be gpt3 or GPT 4 Hour 5 to 6 open ey API hour 7 to8 building AI apps and hours 9 to 10 Advanced topics and real world applications and it gives us some YouTube links for how we can tutorials that we can learn this with so it looks like some of the links are dead and there are different duplicates so it's something that we should definitely improve on in our next iteration but yeah the next little tool is explaining a concept for example maybe you're looking at building um something using dsst API from open Ai and you're looking through the documentation and you notice that there are some of these like there's get for the API uh there's post and you like might be curious what these requests means and how it works so you may go to explain a concept and ask can you explain to me how get post and things like that work can you suggest to me some resources to learn about this click so we can see explain concept get and post are two different types of HTTP methods this method is used to retrieve data from a server when you tap a URL into the browser you're sending a get request to the server for that web page in addition to get and post there are other httv methods like put delete patch Etc which I use to update delete and partially modify your resources respectively and then it lists some resources that you can use in order to learn how these work by the way I'll be sharing the entire code base for study bench so you can use that as a starting point if you want to start building your own AI applications or improve on this definitely tag me if you do that um especially on the prompt engineering Parts the back end is python specifically flask and your front end is your CSS HTML and JavaScript making use of some templates anyways last mini tool is building a project I want to build a project using open AI assistance API to create an assistant that can help me do research on specific topics I want to be able to use code to practice building the assistant and get a stepbystep guide to make assistant messages and threat please provide starter code for each step so a quick Google search I was able to get the documentation for the assistance API here's the documentation we're going to put 5 days and AI expert as the type of project build all right so let's see what we have here day one is to understand to open a API plan your project day two set up your Dev environment day three write basic code to interact with API day four Implement assistant logic and day five test and refine your assistant all right here are some starter code to help you get started import open AI here create assistant um I believe this should be in beta cuz it's still in beta right now your GPT model should be GPT 4 uh it looks like we do have of some of the system and users sending a message and Main not perfectly correct but a good starting point to be fair the AI Freelancers did not have that much time to debug and refine as you shall see because we did run into some issues which I'll go into a little bit later but first let me show you the process of finding a freelancer all right so this is Fiverr and you can click on AI services and it shows you a bunch of different AI services that they have like AI development data content and generative AI in this case I was looking at AI development specifically AI applications and there was a lot of people that were here and I messaged a few of them I'm not going to tell you exactly who it is that I messaged here because I did not get their permission to write their name so just to respect their privacy and just in case my actual budget was $33,000 Max but I wanted to first like gauge how much money they would be charging I also know that this project shouldn't be too difficult working quickly it should take about a week but probably around 2 weeks so I was curious what they were going to pitch me this was the actual conversation for a thread where I describe what I need in terms of timeline and then also describing what it is that I wanted first tip to anybody who wants to work with AI Freelancers try to be as specific as possible in terms of what you want your outputs to look like anyways so a few of them responded back to me and it looked like they were quoting $2,500 to $3,000 USD another quick tip is that you should definitely sample a lot of different Freelancers to understand what the budget actually is and if you're non-technical try to get someone who is technical to give you a gauge for actually how much it should be and then I ended up going on a couple calls and ultimately chose a freelancer that I thought would be a good fit things started out pretty good he said that he could do all these things and he was really fast at responding so I was like oh this would be great and he said he'll be using open AI pine cone a link chain which wouldn't be my go-to choice this was back when Lang chain was a lot more relevant so just keep that in mind he sent me this nice scoping document and show me some of the designs as you notice that it's pretty different from what we ultimately ended up with because this is when we started having a little bit of difficulties we were supposed to check in on Milestones every week but then he was like oh like you know we can just checking at the end it's not that hard of a project so I was like sure okay I don't think it's that hard as well but towards the end he just told me that he can't actually do it which was super stressful because I had promised fiber that I would get this video out like a month ago so I was kind of like freaking out I was like oh my God like what should I do should I just build it myself so I went back and reached out to Fiverr again asking hey like this was the experience that I had what should I do and honestly Fiverr was really good at responding um they were just like look like sometimes these kind of things happen which I get and then they just told me to go find another AI freelancer so I'm like okay that was definitely an experience so another tip here is that if you are working with a freelancer do insist on doing weekly checkups with them and if you are becoming AI influencers insist on this as well like make sure you have your specs out um and check in with your client every single weeks just to make sure that everybody is on track for things anyways they told me to find another freelancer so I did by this time I had already lost a month of time so I quickly emailed a bunch of different Freelancers again same process and then jumped on a call with a few of them before landed on these people so I can't show their names this time because they didn't give me permission to do this um so I found these people and they were pretty awesome so it does say that they were handpicked by the fiber pro team so I was had my hopes up for this one and it showed me that they definitely had the skills to do this and they said that they can do AR projects as well so then we jumped on a call gave them my specs same process and I was like all right guys I know that this is really short notice but I really need to get this out ASAP and they were amazing so again like I know that this should be taking around like 2 weeks or so like a week to two weeks to build out but generally speaking as a software freelancer you should always do that like times two in terms of time cuz it's better to under promise and overd deliver so I totally get that but they were amazing and they're like don't worry about it we'll get it done within 2 weeks so we decided on a price which was $3,000 which was my Max budget so I did haggle a little bit their initial price was a little bit higher but it does seem like the pricing for this kind of project should be around like 2,500 to $3 to $4,000 um which is pretty good for like a week to two weeks of work so that's why I'm saying AI freelancing is a pretty lucrative gig and you're able to understand General web and app development how to do some prompt engineering and use apis like the open AI apis you are pretty much good to go and there's a lot of business use cases for this so anyways we started development almost immediately again super considerate of them because I did have a deadline to reach so they sent me over some figma designs we had a little bit of back and forth about it and we eventually settled on what the effect will be another tip if you're either working as AR Freelancers where you want to be an AR Freelancers try to put them into Milestone so this why they did a really good job at this so I exactly knew what it is that they would be delivering at what place and you also kind of hedge yourself because you're asking for half to payment up front yeah we pretty much went through the development um tweaked the prompts together a little bit and then did some of the testing to ultimately land on what we have here so there you have it that was the entire process like I said earlier I will be providing the entire code base that was being used completely free to you guys so that you can start building on top of this start tweaking it using this as a jumping off point um for optimizing something similar to this or if you want to build your own AI products so I'm not going to go through the full details of this code so this video isn't super long but let me know in the comments below if you guys would like to have a live stream in which we walk through this code and build some stuff on top of it I'll also link down below where you can try out this deployed project we are using gp4 Turbo right now but depending on how much traffic that we get we might decrease that to GPT 3. 5 so just a little bit of note there all right friends to end this project as promis I'm going to give you a guide and some tips if you're interested in becoming a freelancer there are a lot of opportunities to do AI freelancing there's significant demand and honestly not that much Supply that's why you can make quite a lot of money doing something like $3,000 to $4,000 a gig which would take you like 2 weeks two a month to build which is pretty good you think okay so if you're starting off on Fiverr you need to start building up your credentials so that you are getting good traction and then dber team can actually select you as a vetted AI Freelancers to attract better businesses on top of that given my experience with lonely octopus and working with people going into Ai freelancing and successfully Landing gigs you should also be making this project and posting on places like LinkedIn we have a student called Matt and during lonely octopus he learned these AI skills and applied them as pro bono freelancing for a company called strata scratch he shared this project on LinkedIn and kept on giving updates about the things that he's learning and eventually he actually got people reaching out to him for freelancing gigs as well it's totally okay if you don't consider yourself an expert in this field as you learn just start posting more about your experiences you may be thinking like oh my God what do people think I don't know things but actually it's the opposite because people are able to see your progress and they know that you are someone who's able to learn and be able to build projects that may be similar to what their business needs are in terms of the skills that you need you definitely need to know python you can choose to use flask or you can use choose to use something like Jango and in the front end the easiest is to use templates that are available but if you want to make things more fancy uh you should learn JavaScript in addition to your normal CSS and HTML stuff this I would say is the basics to get you started but I would also recommend learning SQL and how to set up a database especially if you're building projects for a company you don't want to be calling to API so often because it could be too expensive and you may want some way of storing information that you can pipe through to certain apis so that's something else I would recommend that you learn so this is the end of this video I hope this is helpful for anybody considering hiring a AI freelancer or becoming an AI freelancer let me know in the comments if you're interested in either of those things and also links and resources below that you can explore if you're interested in AI freelancing uh what are some of 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