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Fly Desk — a public flight-search workspace I built with Bun, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and Playwright. It combines provider search, comparison, quotations, authenticated access, bounded background work, persistent caching, and automated UI coverage. This is my own open-source project, not client work. Repository and setup details: https://github.com/grumitos/fly-desk
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼
Your portfolio shows the finished website.
It doesn't show:
The 47th revision.
The client who changed their mind.
The bug that appeared five minutes before delivery.
The section you rebuilt three times.
The proposal you spent hours writing that went nowhere.
The project you thought would take two days.
The project that somehow took two weeks.
The nights spent learning something new because the project demanded it.
And the quiet satisfaction when everything finally comes together.
That's freelancing.
It's development.
It's business.
It's communication.
It's problem-solving.
And sometimes it's simply figuring things out as you go.
I've learned that technical skill is only one part of being a successful freelancer.
Resilience, communication, patience and the ability to keep learning matter just as much.
To everyone building something of their own:
Keep going.
The finished product rarely shows the full story.
