Uplink Update: How Grew Our Online Community To 1600+ Members

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Manuel Meurer

Founder, Uplink

$16K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Uplink

uplink.tech

from Berlin, Germany

started August 2016

$16,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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1. How I Started A $16K/Month Business Connecting Companies and Tech Freelancers (2019) ➜

This is a follow up story for Uplink. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published over 5 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Hi again, I’m Manuel and I started Uplink, a community of IT freelancers in Germany, in 2016. We have 1600+ members by now and we offer a lively online community, cooperations, events (online and, pre-and hopefully post-Corona, in-person), and, last but not least, job placements, which are also our main source of income.

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Tell us about what you’ve been up to! Has the business been growing?

Well, where to begin, reading my last interview from December 2019 feels pretty surreal, since only a few months later the world started turning upside down, and it hasn’t stopped yet.

In March 2020, when the Corona cases started going up quickly here in Germany and the first lockdown went into effect, 80-90% of the freelancers, who were working through us for...

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