A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over(dbushell.com)
40 points by ibobev | 48 comments
David Bushell's blog post reflecting on the struggling web industry and how to maintain a sustainable web development career while rejecting AI.
#freelancing on Hacker News
7 stories tagged freelancing, newest first.
"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"(correresmidestino.com)
395 points by speckx | 307 comments
A personal blog post by a freelance writer/translator in Ottawa about her workload and people assuming she can just upload her work to ChatGPT.
What being ripped off taught me(belief.horse)
431 points by doctorhandshake | 211 comments
A personal blog post recounting how the author was stiffed $35k on an augmented reality bus tour contract project and the lessons learned about client work.
I Quit. The Clankers Won(dbushell.com)
324 points by domysee | 349 comments
David Bushell's blog post responding to peers who say blogging and coding are over due to AI, arguing against losing faith in sharing expertise.
I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)(idiallo.com)
412 points by caminanteblanco | 106 comments
Ibrahim Diallo's 2019 blog post recounting how he charged $18,000 for building a single static HTML page as a contractor.
It’s been a very hard year(bell.bz)
363 points by surprisetalk | 451 comments
Andy Bell's blog post on how 2025 was a very hard year for his bootstrapped company Set Studio/Piccalilli due to economics, tariffs, politics and AI attitudes.
I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency(neladunato.com)
521 points by taubek | 213 comments
Blog post by designer Nela Dunato, marking 10 years of self-employment, explaining why she won't grow her freelance design studio into an agency.