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Announcing our cooperation with sevDesk

Recently we have noticed several discussions about accounting topics in our community. The duties of a self-employed person include, besides the actual core project business, project acquisition as well as

(Re-)Announcing our cooperation with Exali

There is hardly a market that is as intransparent and saturated as the insurance market. If you google "insurance for freelancers", you'll get 1.040.000 results in 0.42

Announcing our cooperation with Vantik

Recently, some of our members have expressed the wish to learn more about different savings and retirement options for freelancers. A survey during our webinar also revealed that most of

Announcing our Community Wiki

One of the features, that many members of our community have asked for over the years, was a way to "bookmark" certain posts from our Slack workspace to make it

Start and redesign of our Remote Community Meetups

With our "Remote Community Meetup" concept we are already entering the 8th round. We came up with the idea, as it was no longer possible for us to meet face-to-face

Launching our webinar series

Organizing a webinar on a topic relevant to IT freelancers was something we have had in our backlog for a long time, and now we finally got around to it!

Covid-19 resources for freelancers in Germany

Numerous companies have put current projects on hold and are trying to keep expenses as low as possible, which has had an immediate effect on the income of freelancers. In

Community jobs

Update June 2020 - #jobs-community is now also open for Uplink members, who started their own startup and are looking for co-founders or a CTO in exchange for shares! Every

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January "IPAs and APIs" Community Meetup in Berlin

What better way to start the roaring 20s than to meet some fellow freelancers for a nice evening of cold drinks and inspiring conversations? On January 10, we did just

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Announcing our cooperation with Modis

Update July 2020 - Our cooperation with Modis has now ended and will not be renewed as of right now. tl;dr - Starting today, we'll run a 6-month trial

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Announcing our cooperation with Welance

Update July 2020 - the Welance coworking space does not exist anymore unfortunately! In times where working remotely is becoming more and more normal among freelancers as well as regular

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Sandor Farkas

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Niels Madan

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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October "IPAs and APIs" Community Meetup in Berlin

For our last community meetup in Berlin we returned to one of our regular bars - the Straßenbräu in Friedrichshain! It turned out to be a great night again, and

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Thomas Krüger

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

Check your recruiter contracts with Uplink!

Some of the most common questions we have seen over the years in our Slack workspace had to do with recruiter contracts and how hard it is for a freelancer

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Mirko Strugar

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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Second Community Meetup in München

On August 30, we invited our Munich-based members out for a beer for the second time! This time the location was the Container Collective in Werksviertel, a pretty cool "pop-up

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(Re-)Announcing our cooperation with Kontist

Update from August 2020 - we reactivated our cooperation with Kontist. Find out the new conditions in our recent Blogpost. The Berlin-based FinTech startup Kontist was our first cooperation partner

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Manuel Bieh

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Bastian Gruber

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer neuen Interview-Reihe gehen wir darum ab sofort mit jeweils einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch. Wir hören

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Andreas Hartmetz

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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July "APIs and IPAs" Community Meetup at Straßenbräu in Berlin

On July 25, a good chunk of the Berlin Uplink community got together again to enjoy each other's company while sipping on a good cold beer! We returned to Straßenbräu,

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Announcing our cooperation with lexoffice

The most tedious part of being self-employed are often the accounting duties–whether it's the monthly or quarterly preliminary tax returns, the full tax return at the end of the

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Florian Ritzel

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, unsere Mitglieder persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer neuen Interview-Reihe gehen wir darum ab sofort mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch. Dieses Mal: Florian Ritzel, React- und React-Native-Entwickler in Berlin.

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