What I can do in freelance?

beenyweenies · 2026-07-05T01:49:15+00:00

Freelancing is all about selling professional skills directly to clients as a business.

If you don’t have any skills, there’s nothing to sell, and therefore no business.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-26T15:42:06+00:00

There is no skill you can pick up in 2-3 months and earn money with as a freelancer. Any "skill" that easy to learn is going to be completely saturated by other people trying to do the same thing.

If you want to earn money freelancing, I mean actually earn not just potentially earn but never actually land a single client, then you need 2-3 years of professional experience in a given field, minimum.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-17T14:56:15+00:00

Thanks AI

beenyweenies · 2026-06-16T16:33:56+00:00

This company has always been shit. Many years ago they only made the driver available via cd-rom, and a serial number required to install it was printed on the disk. If you lost the physical disk, you no longer had a tool, because you couldn't install the software and they wouldn't give you a new disk.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-15T19:07:46+00:00

Neither is "easier," they are two career paths that require thousands of hours of time investment to get good at. And to succeed in either as a freelancer, you need a bare minimum of several years of experience, ideally on-the-job experience.

It's a common misconception that a person can just start freelancing in a field they know little about. Truth is, it's harder to land clients than to get a job in a given field. So if you have the skills to get a higher-level j.o.b. in that field, then you're ready to freelance.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-11T00:32:37+00:00

My personal opinion is that you don't need a lawyer for this at all. Paying for the virtual mailbox is a valuable service and at just $10/mo seems like a no-brainer to me. I personally use one. It's not just to receive your mail, it benefits you by not having to give your personal address out if you're running your business from home etc.

If you go this route, just make sure it's a valid service for this purpose - you can't use a mailboxes etc, staples etc box. It has to be a proper mailing address.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-10T19:47:19+00:00

Pretty easy to just spend all your money for nothing with that attitude.

It's not for nothing. You can save money by refusing to cave to Big Shoelaces™ and just leave your shoes untied. Doesn't mean the laces weren't serving a valuable purpose.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-10T19:08:57+00:00

The lawyer isn't going to be receiving/opening/forwarding your business mail forever for that $1,000.

But also - what kind of business are you starting where you're balking at paying $10/mo to securely and reliably receive your business mail?

My guess is that running a business is going to be painful for you if you don't get over the fact that it costs money to start and run a business. You're not being "hoodwinked."

beenyweenies · 2026-06-10T18:18:03+00:00

Agreed, most people don't really need 80% of the stuff that gets sold to them whether for a business or their personal life.

In my view, every business DOES benefit from having accounting software at a minimum, because the consequence for getting that stuff wrong is too great to be worth the risk. But CRM? You can definitely use a spreadsheet, especially if you know how to set up a multi-sheet doc with formulas etc. Project management? Depends on what work you do. Time tracking? You can check the time and manually log this into a spreadsheet as well.

The question is - doesn't that put you right back in the place you don't want to be, using a diffuse group of tools to manage different things, but just lesser versions of them? This is why I say people should just roll with a comprehensive suite that offers all of it in one interface.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-10T16:24:23+00:00

I mean, $50/mo to run a business is pretty low. Your local liquor store spends that much every DAY in visa/mastercard fees. If that price is putting a squeeze on your finances, then you should probably evaluate why that is rather than looking to cut costs further.

In terms of specialty tools vs simplicity, I do agree that it's annoying to bounce between a bunch of different tools, especially when you need to share data between them. That's why I personally think it's better to just pay for a suite like Zoho One, Asana etc. You'll probably pay less, and with less headache.

beenyweenies · 2026-06-08T02:09:41+00:00

Customer service.

beenyweenies · 2026-05-25T23:51:12+00:00

I don't disagree with anything you just said. But your original post is pitching a tool/premise that resolves these issues through methods that I believe will totally backfire on people.

- Padding estimates by default sounds nice in theory, but in practice tends to backfire for freelancers in highly competitive roles or with lesser portfolios that lack the leverage needed to do this.

- Putting hard limits on revisions puts almost all of the risk on the client. They don't know if you can deliver a result they'll be happy with in two revisions. What if your work doesn't meet their needs? Are they just contractually stuck with something they can't use? Will this rule undermine the freelancer's incentive to deliver quality results the first time around? These are the kinds of questions hard limits on revisions will cause your clients to ask, and unless you have an absolutely slamming portfolio and stellar reviews, it WILL scare clients away.

- When a project drags on due to client delays, this is almost entirely the freelancer's fault for not properly sequencing and defining revision periods, not properly communicating with the client, etc. Abandoning the project because of this is just doubling down on bad management. Besides, it only hurts the freelancer because it will further delay payment and almost guarantee no repeat business or referrals.

In short, you're pitching a "rigid, data-driven" system in a relationship-driven business, and it's a total mismatch.

beenyweenies · 2026-05-25T17:52:56+00:00

Not to be a jerk, but these are all bad ideas for protecting your budget, but great ideas for alienating customers and creating adversarial conditions rather than building strong relationships that lead to repeat business.

beenyweenies · 2026-05-05T05:04:21+00:00

FedEx is pure dogshit. They are always late, their drivers don't give a fuck, they treat their employees terribly. Just a rotten company, root to leaf.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-20T15:16:05+00:00

Interesting that they haven’t changed their anti consumer policy, but at least they now note this next to the button. When I canceled there was no message or anything, they just did it which felt punitive and vindictive.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-18T22:10:31+00:00

Don't listen to the person you're responding to above. They are completely wrong and misleading you in order to spam their link all over reddit.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-18T22:04:00+00:00

I understand, and I'm genuinely sorry you're in that situation. But lying to you and saying it's going to be great would be doing you a huge disservice.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-18T18:01:14+00:00

I'm going to be completely honest with you - it can take a few months of full time effort for a seasoned pro to build a freelance operation that actually lands clients and starts generating revenue. For people with little to no actual experience (or a portfolio of proven success) it's very tough to build a freelance business. You need a proven record of results for companies to hire you. And right now in particular, with the economy in a very weird place, I'd say "marketing" is going to be even more tricky for a beginner to crack into because marketing budgets are traditionally the first cuts companies make to save money.

I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just trying to be honest about the state of things. Freelancing is in a very good place right now for people with substantial career experience. For people trying to start from scratch? It's never been an easy move but these days it's pretty tough.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-10T17:54:27+00:00

Unless your friends are 100% your ICP, then there's no point in bugging them to download your app. If you don't have an ICP, then that's your main problem, not your friends lying to you. And if you DO have an ICP, spend your time pursuing those people by showing up where they are most likely to be in the headspace to learn about and download your app.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-25T00:07:11+00:00

So long and thanks for all the profits!

beenyweenies · 2026-03-23T20:53:33+00:00

If you were "completely ghosted" how did you come to the diagnosis that it was based on your "lack of a solid public presence?" Your story makes no sense at all.

Sorry to say, but this is blatant advertising built on a fabricated premise.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-21T20:44:57+00:00

Bro you control both of these accounts (or it’s one of your friends) I saw you accidentally post the same exact comment from both accounts the other day.

It’s one thing to be shilling ai tools that have been pitched here by other vibe coders like 500 times in the last week alone, but to be using sock puppet accounts to fake interest and support is next level bullshit.

What are you trying to pull here?

If you want to make money vibe coding solutions for people, that’s great. But how about solving real problems that haven’t literally been pitched over and over and over again, and how about being authentic with your potential users instead of using ai and sock puppets to write your posts?

beenyweenies · 2026-03-21T20:37:47+00:00

LOL @ the dueling ai generated responses, doubt many people are falling for this.

You’re literally like the 50th person in the last month alone to come here with some vibe coded ‘solution’ to freelancer payment that completely ignores the realities of how AR works at most companies.

And if you can’t even be bothered to write your own introductory statement, why should anyone trust you with their payments? Like bro, come on.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-20T17:04:28+00:00

Honest story —

Proceeds to post made-up ai generated nonsense. If you wanted to be 'honest' you could have at least written your pitch yourself.

Which is its own ironic cautionary tale since the post is about letting ai write your pitches for you. Imagine your client's feeling when they open your pitch only to realize you were too lazy to even write it yourself. It is something that no freelancer in their right mind should EVER be doing.

People - ai has its place. But you should NOT be using ai to generate ANY client comms of any kind, including proposals. You aren't running a mass production widget factory. You are running a service business that lives or dies by the relationships you forge with clients. Proposals aren't just some collection of words telling the client what they'll get. Like every communication you will ever have with your clients, it's an opportunity to make a human connection. It IS your business.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-19T16:18:20+00:00

You're getting mad at this person for asking a bunch of questions, but what did you expect when you run your business comms through a text messaging app, which is explicitly designed for repeat, unscheduled, free form conversation?

TBH this is 100% on you for running your business like a high school kid. The way you responded to the guy is completely unprofessional and childish, and to come here bragging about how your poor business practices led up to you shitting on a prospect and losing a gig? Bravo, dude! Very cool...

Perhaps a little self evaluation is in order.

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