The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams Startups used to follow a familiar hiring pattern: raise money, build a c…
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Hi DEV Community — I’m Steven, an affiliate web developer
Hi DEV Community 👋 My name is Steven Doan. I’m a freelance websites developer. I have worked with WordPress for many years, building websites for clie…
🚀 Day 0/30: Building a Real Android App for a Client in Public
Today marks the start of a new challenge. For the next 30 days, I'll be building a real Android application for a client and documenting the journey p…
First Year Self-Employed Taxes: What I Wish I'd Known Before Going Solo
First Year Self Employed Taxes 2026 I'm a solo dev running AniNext — an anime discovery app on iOS and Android. When I started taking the business ser…
Stop Memorizing Code: How I Built a Free Speed Trainer for SDE Prep (InterviewPro)
https://modreninterviewproject.vercel.app/ Hey Dev Community! 👋 As developers, we’ve all been there: staring at hundreds of LeetCode problems or DSA s…
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…
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…
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 …
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,…
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 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 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 —…
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…