Recent posts tagged freelancing

A lot of us here work remotely or are weighing a remote offer against an office one, and the salary is usually the only number that gets compared. Here is the rest of the math, the parts that decide what a remote role is really worth and what a freel...

Most of us here already have the skill that makes a side hustle easy to start, since we write code for a living. The hard part is not the idea, it is picking something that still fits your week after a full day of shipping at work. Start With Honest...

A lot of us here have taken on a client project on the side or thought about going independent. This is a short guide to the parts of freelancing that trip developers up most, written from the developer side of the table. Why a Niche Beats a Stack ...

Five Years of Not Giving Up — My Journey as a Developer Five years ago, I had no idea where programming would take me. It started with my cousin. He had started learning programming, and one day he recommended that I give it a try too. I didn't i...

The Missing Freelance Time Tracker It has a name now: MelaFreelance. Here's what it is, and why it's yours — not mine. In the last piece1 I explained the itch: every time tracker I tried was built for teams, and I'm one person with a client, a pr...

Why the "simple" tool I needed didn't exist — so I made it. For years I did what most freelancers do: I borrowed tools built for someone else. Every time-tracking app I reached for was beautiful. Polished onboarding, slick dashboards, thoughtful a...