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life as a freelancer in one video 😅
"Quick question"
"Small change"
"One more thing"
"Can you make the logo bigger?"
"Actually... let's go back to version one" 💀
Every freelancer has heard at least 5 of these. Which one hits the hardest? 👇
...still wouldn't trade it for anything ♥
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Built myself a little command center for my freelance work this week. It’s called Bench.
Contra handles the contracts and payments, but my day-to-day was scattered across Contra chats, Gmail, my calendar, Notion, and a notes app. So I pulled it all into one place:
• A dashboard showing what needs me today: unread messages, overdue tasks, past-due invoices, leads that have gone quiet
• Each project gets its own page with scope, deliveries, tasks, links, and the full message thread from Contra and email
• A pipeline for leads, including a “Ghosted” column, because we’ve all been there
• A time tracker for the hourly stuff
• It syncs with my Contra projects and invoices every morning
Curious how other freelancers here keep track of everything. Spreadsheets? Notion? Pure chaos?
The Ghosted column is painfully relatable. Does the morning sync use Contra's API?
Honest question for the designers and devs here: do you ever build a free concept before the client hires you?
Last week I built a full animated one-pager for a lead before we'd even had a call. It took an afternoon.
Some people say never work for free. Others say a live link beats any proposal.
Where do you land?
1. Never, my time is the product
2. Only for dream clients
3. Always, it's my best closer
Drop a number 👇