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What I’m Learning While Transitioning From Software Engineering to Freelancing

After nearly 3 years of experience as a software engineer, I recently started preparing seriously for freelancing and remote opportunities. Before my …

Why I’m Building a Privacy-First SOW Analyzer to Kill Scope Creep (Launching Next Month)

If you run a freelance dev business or a small agency, you already know the silent margin-killer: Scope Creep. You sign a 30-page Statement of Work (S…

Building calculatefreelance: A lightweight Next.js utility for the 1099 economy

Hey everyone, Like many independent developers here, I spent the last few weeks navigating the confusing world of quarterly 1099 taxes, trying to figu…

When APIs Lie: A Lesson in Defensive Debugging

Last week, I spent six hours chasing a ghost in our payment gateway integration. The API returned a 200 OK status, yet the transaction failed silently…

What a real Sanity CMS development services proposal looks like

A Sanity CMS development services proposal should tell you exactly what you're buying, when you'll see it, and what happens when scope shifts. Most pr…

I Built FreelancEye, an Open-Source Mobile PWA for Finding Clients

I built FreelancEye, an open-source mobile PWA for developers and freelancers who want to find real clients. Instead of guessing who might need a webs…

Why most freelancers undercharge (and the maths behind fixing it)

Most freelancers set their rate by looking at what others charge and picking something nearby. This feels safe. It also creates a systematic problem: …

Code Meets Commerce: What Building Websites for Real Businesses Taught Me About Software Engineering

When you're learning to code, your focus is entirely on the technical stuff. You worry about clean code, component reusability, state management, and …

Day 15 — I posted comments on other people's articles instead of writing my own

For Day 15 of the build-in-public series on a $0-sales Apify actor, I stopped writing my own article and posted two comments on other people's posts i…

How I use AI to run a WordPress maintenance business (6 concrete examples)

Running a WordPress maintenance business sounds low-tech: update plugins, check backups, send reports. But I use AI every week to handle the parts tha…

15 AI prompts I actually use as a tech freelancer (with the uncomfortable ones included)

I've been freelancing in tech for years. These are the prompts that actually save me time -- not the generic "write me an email" stuff, but specific, …

WooCommerce maintenance: 8 checks that keep payment processing alive (with SQL queries)

A WooCommerce store going down at 11pm on a Friday is a different emergency than a brochure site going down. Missed orders are lost revenue. Failed pa…

The WordPress maintenance business: real numbers, pricing math, and what most freelancers get wrong

WordPress maintenance is one of the most reliably profitable niches in freelancing. It's also one of the most consistently underpriced. After running …

Hire a Sanity developer vs agency: five honest trade-offs

When a founder asks me whether to hire a Sanity developer directly or go through an agency, I never give the same answer twice. The right choice depen…

From a Laptop in Tunis to Enterprise Clients Worldwide: My Story as a 23-Year-Old Founder

I want to tell you something nobody told me when I started. Nobody told me that building software alone, at 17, with no team, no funding, and no name,…

Todoist vs Toggl: Why You Need Both (Or One Tool That Does It All)

Todoist and Toggl do not compete — they are typically used together. Todoist manages tasks and projects. Toggl tracks how long you spend on them. The …

Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't.

Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't. Eight days into a public cold-start log for an open-source Apify Ac…

How freelance tradespeople in France pick quoting and invoicing software in 2026

France has more than 2.5 million registered auto-entrepreneurs, and a large slice of them work in the building trade: plumbers, electricians, painters…

How a one-person dev studio runs with autonomous AI agents

TL;DR (for the impatient) BaoDev.studio is a one-person dev studio paired with a fleet of autonomous AI agents. The workflow is built around Claude Co…

The Exact Script I Used to Raise My Rate From $40 to $95 Per Hour

I raised my hourly rate more than double in about ten months. Not by getting dramatically better at my craft. I was already good enough. The change wa…

What changes when a WordPress project is planned with clear criteria

I’ve picked apart enough WordPress projects to know where the slow, expensive problems start: not in the code, but in the way decisions were made at t…

The Late Payment Policy + 4 email scripts that turn 90-day-overdue invoices into 14-day-paid invoices

The freelancers who get paid on time aren't the ones with better clients. They're the ones with better collections discipline. The data on this is con…

The Independent Contractor Agreement that keeps the IRS off your back — and the 7-item checklist that proves you're really a contractor

Misclassification audits are not exotic. State labor agencies, the IRS, and private plaintiffs all run them, and the consequences land on both sides —…

How are small web agencies managing client websites after launch?

I built a free, no-login, unlimited AI invoice tool. Here are the 4 features and the 5 5 3 dunning matrix behind it.

Cross-post notice: this is the canonical version. Reposts on Medium, Hashnode, and Indie Hackers will link back here. A few months ago I shipped a fre…

The 7 Places Agency Client Onboarding Breaks (And How to Fix Them)

1. The access collection black hole You need Figma access, Google Analytics, WordPress admin, GitHub, and the client's Slack. You ask. They forward a …

Stop Building Side Projects. Build Systems. (A Freelancer's Confession)

This is the follow-up to What I Actually Learned Building a Side Project in 5 Days With AI . That post was about AI. This one is about what happens af…