Pro
Fedir Davydov
Production-ready web apps, websites, and motion
- $25k+
- Earned
- 20x
- Hired
- 4.98
- Rating
- 171
- Followers
My 2025 freelance stats are in — and I'm happy of the progress this year:
$25K earned
114 job applications submitted
18 hires
4.98 rating
3 expert badges
5 verified projects added to my portfolio
Consistency > everything. On to an even bigger 2026. 🚀
I made it. 25K earned this year.
This is the first year where I earned more from freelancing than from my full-time job.
I’m incredibly grateful to my amazing clients who trusted me with their projects, and to the Contra platform for giving designers like us the freedom to...
Getting your first clients doesn’t have to be complicated.
Before you start cold outreach or stressing about your portfolio, talk to the people already around you — friends, family, colleagues, your neighbour, even someone from your gym. You’d be surprised how many small tasks,...
My first design was awful.
My second was awful.
My third was awful.
My twentieth… still awful.
And that’s normal.
In my opinion, it takes at least two years of consistent work to reach a good (not even great) level of expertise as a designer. Skills build slowly. Taste improves...