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This happened in 2022 but I still dream about it sometimes. Name and country removed, as the topic rules say. Grab your popcorn. 1. The brief. "We need an app like Uber, but for laundry. Simple." Budget: $2,500 fixed. Timeline: 4 weeks. I should have closed the tab. I did not close the tab. I was chasing a monthly target and my sister's school fees were due. 2. The small additions. Week one: "can riders also see the…
BLUF: I now build and maintain a booking site for a local gym on nights and weekends, legally, with my employer's written OK. It took three weeks of paperwork. Here's the checklist, because a lot of you career changers are about to do the same thing and some of you will skip step 1. 1. Read your employment agreement. All of it. Look for three things: an "outside employment" or "conflict of interest" clause, an IP…
Pana, cada vez que alguien en internet me dice "crypto is the future" o "crypto es una estafa", me da risa. Para mí USDT no es ninguna de las dos cosas. Es cómo cobro y cómo compro harina. Vaina práctica, nada más. Cómo cobro Trabajo freelance desde Valencia (la de Venezuela, no la de España jaja), sobre todo Laravel y React, con clientes de Estados Unidos y España. El cliente me paga por la plataforma o por…
Parce, arranco con la historia triste para que no les pase. Mi primer cliente gringo, 2021: una app de reservas para un gimnasio en Florida. Todo por chat, cero contrato, "we're a small team, we trust each other". Entregué todo, código, deploy, todo. El último pago, 3.000 dólares, nunca llegó. El man dejó de contestar. Él tenía la app funcionando, yo tenía una lección. Desde ahí hago estas cosas, sin excepción: 1.…
My first Upwork job in 2017 was $8 an hour fixing a WordPress contact form. Today I charge $45 an hour for Laravel and React, and fixed projects are priced from the same number. Here is how I think about it. Numbers are mine, from Lagos, Top Rated Plus. Your market may be different. 1. Pick a floor and never go below it My floor is $35 an hour. If a job cannot pay that, I do not apply. The floor comes from simple…
Disclaimer que no es de compromiso: no soy contador . Las reglas en Argentina cambian cada seis meses, y lo que hoy es así mañana no. Esto es mi experiencia de 4 años laburando como contractor para empresas de afuera. Tómenlo como un mapa, no como la ley. 1. El contrato y el W-8BEN Si laburás para una empresa de Estados Unidos como contractor, te van a pedir el formulario W-8BEN. Sirve para declarar que no sos…
We have a saying here: the cheap thing comes out expensive. I want to check before I sign something cheap. Context: I am a Java/Spring developer in Cluj and I invoice through my own SRL. A client in Munich wants me for minimum 2 years, 40 hours a week, their Jira, their laptop, their standups, their working hours. Basically an employee, but on invoice. Their lawyer mentioned "Scheinselbstständigkeit" and now they…
klien bayar invoice telat 3 bulan, terus chat 'mas, nambah fitur dikit ya, yang kecil aja'. fitur kecilnya: integrasi payment gateway + laporan pajak. wkwkwk. PHP masih bayar cicilan, tapi klien belum bayar PHP-nya 🙏
