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I think that I have a lot to offer -- I have strong full stack development skills with a focus on rich front-ends, either with pure JS, jQuery, or Angular; I know my way around MongoDB and PostgreSQL; and I can go from raw ideas to finished products on my own and in a team. I am very good at organizational thinking and planning and have a sense for design throughout the development process.
The trick is, I have very few connections. So how can I (and people like me) break into freelancing? Is trolling twitter for jobs the answer? Maybe getting started on a site like freelancer.com (I hope that isn't the best option)? Or just building static sites for local farmer's market vendors?
I'm in NYC, so I think if I really put myself out there I would have plenty of options available to me, but I'm at a loss for how to go about it. Does HN have any advice?