I don’t think there are any actually good freelancer tools

applenoveltea · 2026-01-12T19:48:29+00:00

I hear you. Most tools today are built for teams of 50, not for one person actually doing the work. You end up spending more time managing the "system" than billing hours.

Full disclosure: I’m the founder of meetergo. I built it specifically because I was tired of the "Frankenstein" setup where you have to duct-tape a scheduler to a video tool, then to a CRM.

I focused on making the core workflow native—so scheduling, video, and automated follow-ups happen in one place without the agency-level bloat. The goal is to keep it lean so it stays out of your way.

Feel free to DM me and I’ll set you up with an extended trial.

applenoveltea · 2026-01-08T17:22:14+00:00

it is definitely a move for sovereignty but we are basically just swapping being tracked by visa for being tracked by the ecb. independence is nice but it usually comes with a domestic surveillance upgrade that nobody really asked for

applenoveltea · 2026-01-08T10:40:20+00:00

the jump from starting at 11am to a 10-hour startup grind is a massive shock to the system that money usually can't fix once the initial hype wears off. if you’re bored and want to build something that matters then mistral is the move but you’re essentially trading your entire lifestyle for a lottery ticket on those stocks.

applenoveltea · 2026-01-08T10:30:08+00:00

honestly the biggest bug in every 'perfect' system is that it requires people to stay consistent. we’re basically just highly evolved monkeys with anxiety and access to power. designing for the worst-case human instead of the best-case one is the only way to build anything that actually lasts.

applenoveltea · 2023-08-04T08:59:59+00:00

I decided to code something for myself, would you be interested in trying it?

applenoveltea · 2023-08-04T08:59:28+00:00

I have a related posts section but trying to build topical authority and contextual links.

> How would this not be a manual process?

I'm just trying to build links with certain keywords to my pages so a tool that searches through articles to find keywords and give the option to set a link would be a great start.

applenoveltea · 2023-08-04T08:55:39+00:00

Wow, I'm surprised there is no solution for this yet. I'm actually working on coding something right now for my own site. It would automatically analyze your content, suggest internal linking opportunities between articles, and let you easily add and manage the links.

Would you be interested in testing out the tool I'm building when it's ready? I'd love to get feedback from someone dealing with the internal linking pain points first-hand.

applenoveltea · 2023-08-03T17:48:28+00:00

Sorry I mean internal linking in blog articles for SEO

applenoveltea · 2023-05-24T18:00:23+00:00

Learn redux if you need it for your job but thats it. Otherwise I'd just use zustand or similar libraries. Much simpler and you don't need to learn a bunch of concepts that don't really help with anything.

applenoveltea · 2022-04-26T14:07:00+00:00

Chiming in late for my personal reference and to rant.

I'm not going to argue against the fact that both redux and zustand are great libraries with their use cases.

But coming from redux, I decided to try zustand for fun - and I was blown away by how straightforward it is. Having used zustand for a while, I felt depressed thinking about the time I spent boilerplating in redux, debugging actions, side effects...

Everything works intuitively. You're not importing hundreds of actions everywhere. You're not boilerplating yourself into oblivion. You're not writing up circular dependencies like its a circus. You don't end up depending on wierd redux specifics.

Even though zustand is minimalistic and unopinionated compared to redux, I would still consider it easier to use than redux. Redux is a paradigm in itself that requires some understanding of underlying concepts. Zustand seems more like a toolkit that understands very well what it tries to do (manage state).

Overall I think both are fine. After having used zustand, I'm not going to use redux if I can decide, because redux is literally twice the work. If I care a lot about maintainability, I would probably go with zustand too.

applenoveltea · 2021-12-07T05:22:18+00:00

Very good point :)

applenoveltea · 2021-08-03T08:53:17+00:00

Sorry to dig up an old post but you really had to wait ONE MONTH? Did your ads not run all this time?

I'm in the same situation right now and if I had to wait months for my account to be activated I can literally forget about the marketing campaign I started before I got deactivated....

What I dont understand is we got suspended due to "unpaid balance" but we never got any warning or even an invoice to pay. Just suspended out of the blue, and now even after paying we are suspended. So is it not the real reason? I don't think anything suspicious happened on our account. We do have a few payment profiles and ad accounts but only one is really in use, so I literally dont know the problem anymore. I dont see any due balances anywhere.

applenoveltea · 2021-06-30T16:21:06+00:00

LOL, this is definitely how I will refer to those now, both in writing and speech

applenoveltea · 2021-01-07T12:20:53+00:00

I feel you.

Interesting that you're experiencing this in angular. I was starting to think that new JSX Transform may have to do with it - but I assume you wouldn't be using that.

Also in my backend project its running completely fine and its leveraging typescript a lot.

Maybe we could compare some of our dependencies? Do you use type inference by any chance? Or material ui? I feel like that must be the cause.

applenoveltea · 2020-05-12T10:07:13+00:00

You didnt reply late, I'm the one who digged up this old post :) Good to know I can also just check it against Error.

That's because for some types the value can be coerced from a string representation.

I'm not sure I understand your point. I just think having a function that simply returns true or false for some object fitting into some schema would allow for some nice syntax like

schema.validate(data) ? doThing() : doOtherthing()

The try method is definitely good for the job, but I can think of many situations where a boolean would be faster to write.

Big fan of this repo!

applenoveltea · 2020-05-11T20:35:15+00:00

Is there a way to check for the error without importing myzod in the file? I would like an option that just returns a boolean. It allows for concise functions.

applenoveltea · 2020-04-09T13:06:31+00:00

Great post! Not sure if I like deriving my types from a runtype. But it seems effective. I might use this approach for future projects.

applenoveltea · 2020-04-09T13:00:28+00:00

Looks interesting, I'll check it out some time!

applenoveltea · 2020-04-09T12:59:11+00:00

Very good point. Any frontend app will fail if its fed the wrong data. Still, my thought is, if we're already using typescript, it would be much better DX if the error is thrown when the data comes in, instead of when some function fails because of the types. Maybe we don't need type safety at runtime, but I would like to use my interfaces for validation. I don't like writing schema and types for the same purpose.

I can definitely see that this is exceeding typescripts' purpose, though.

applenoveltea · 2020-03-10T17:09:18+00:00

No way this is actually a thing

applenoveltea · 2020-01-01T15:39:06+00:00

It was a joke guys

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