u/rafnotfound

Been working with an agency for months. No contract, revenue-share model, and they act as the wall between me and the actual client. I delivered everything on scope. When I emailed the end client directly, my contact said clients "don't want to work with Bangladeshis." The real issue is clearly that I bypassed them. But they chose to frame it as my identity being the problem probably because it's harder to push back on. Have you dealt with this? How do you formalize the relationship before it gets to this point?

I work as a freelance developer for foreign clients, mostly through middlemen. Last week, when I tried to contact the actual end client on a project I built myself, the intermediary told me their clients "don't want to work with Bangladeshi people." It was a way to make me feel like I need them. Like without their cover, I'm unsellable. And honestly it worked for a minute. If you do remote work, especially in tech, have you hit this? How do you get out from under that dynamic? Just so you know I can communicate I'm English I'd say I'm a native speaker or on par with a native speaker and i don't look Bangladeshi either. They also went ahead and said "you look too young" what should I be doin?