Who Should Own a Client's Domain and Hosting? A Handover Checklist
If you build sites for clients, this is the setup I use on every project, and the one I'd want any client to insist on from any developer. It's writ…
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"Can you just add a small button?" and Other Things Founders Say (Translated by a Full Stack Dev)
After 7+ years building web and mobile products, I've learned that client requests come with a hidden translation. Here's my decoder ring. 🔍 1. "Can…
Experienced Developer Seeks Freelance Transition Strategies for Web Apps and Shopify/E-commerce Development
The Freelance Transition Challenge: Bridging the Portfolio Gap For experienced developers eyeing the freelance world, the absence of a dedicated por…
Equity vs Cash: When Should a Freelancer Accept Startup Stock?
You send a proposal for $12,000. The founder replies: "Would you consider taking part of this as equity? We're early but the upside is massive." It'…
AI Built My Site in an Hour, Why Are You Charging So Much? — 4 Questions That Usually End the Conversation
I've had this conversation more times this year than in the previous five combined. A client sends me a link. It's a genuinely nice-looking site — c…
From Freelancing to Building My Own SaaS: What Building Adowise Taught Me
For a long time, I thought becoming a better developer meant learning more technologies. Learn another framework. Learn another database. Learn anot…
What I Wish I Knew Before Taking My First Freelance Client
When I started freelancing, I thought the hard part would be the code. It wasn't. The hard part was everything around the code — scoping the work, s…
I got tired of paying for invoicing software, so I built my own (and open-sourced it)
I run a small one-person software consultancy, and for the last year I've been paying a monthly SaaS fee to send maybe 8-10 invoices a month. Every…
WordPress or Custom Development? The Decision Framework I Use With Clients
A client asks for a website. One agency recommends WordPress for $4,000. Another developer proposes a custom application for $15,000. Someone else s…
Did the client read my proposal? What an open tells you, and the one thing you must never do with it
You spent two days on it. You attached it, wrote three careful sentences in the body, and pressed send. That was Tuesday. It is now Friday and there…
The Real Cost of Late Client Payments (and How to Stop Absorbing It)
Late client payments don't just delay your money. They cost you real time, real cash flow, and real opportunities — and most freelancers never actua…
Your Client's Schema Doesn't Belong in Your Cloud Account
Disclosure: I build Schemity , a desktop ERD tool - this post is from our blog and uses it for the examples. TL;DR: Consultants juggling client enga…
The "Ghost Client" Problem: How to Manage Orphaned Domains and Abandoned Hosting
Article image The "Ghost Client" Problem: How to Manage Orphaned Domains and Abandoned Hosting Every web design agency, freelancer, and managed serv…
Why I Stopped Using Upload-Based Image Converters for Client Work
I build and optimize websites for a living. That means converting images between formats constantly — WebP to PNG for legacy systems, PNG to WebP fo…
Client Asset Ownership: Should the Agency or the Client Own the Domain and Hosting?
Article image Client Asset Ownership: Should the Agency or the Client Own the Domain and Hosting? For freelancers and new agency owners, building so…
Why Your Upwork Proposal Gets Ignored in the First 3 Seconds
Every freelancer asks the same question: why do clients ghost my proposals? The answer lives in those first 3 seconds — the time it takes a client t…
A Freelance React Native Workflow That Cuts MVP Delivery From 4 Weeks to 1
A Freelance React Native Workflow That Cuts MVP Delivery From 4 Weeks to 1 If you freelance on React Native, your build time isn't where you think i…
I built Zeninvo — free invoicing for freelancers
Hey dev community 👋 I just launched Zeninvo — a free invoicing app for freelancers and small teams who want to send professional invoices without wr…
How a web agency keeps every client site secure
If you build and maintain sites for clients, you are on the hook for security on properties you may not log into for weeks. A header gets dropped in…
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…
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 cl…
🚀 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…
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 s…
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…
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…
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…
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 we…
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 runnin…
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 nam…
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…