Hi,
1- Full freelancer.
2- More than 40hrs / week.
3- I prefer to work at night in my country timing, quieter, which matches us taking (coincidence).
4- NDA no problem.
5- Agreed.
6- I do web scrapping all the time/cron. I like to scrape websites, login, update, it is fun and I'm good at it.
- Experience#1: I did web scraping for London Stock Exchange news releases for stocks. and then update profiles and send notifications.
- Experience#2: I did it for uploading new advertisement. There was a website updates one time a day. So if you upload your ad at the very last second, you'll be viewed at top. So I cron it which brings successful results. Especially updates needs (login, upload images, text editing, activate, confirm in email, publish).
7- APIs are the easiest ever. They are better organized to pull data in xml/soap.
When API don't work I web scrape. Get the Job Done asap.
8- Setup linux servers are easy.
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I have one concern only:
- i can work more than 40hrs per week. But They can be scattered. I normally finish jobs way faster than new programmers, because of my experience. If you can adjust that, That would be the best and you'll get a great developer.
Rega