My biggest freelance mistake? Not charging enough I charged $75/hour thinking it was good money Client later told me he budgeted $150 I left $15K on the table that project alone I was anchoring to my corporate salary. Huge mistake Your corporate salary is designed to trap

You can leave the corporate treadmill without a miracle. You need one thing. JUST START - Get crystal clear on your offer. Freelance service, SaaS, contracting etc. - Learn the fastest channel to market it - Pitch your value - Stick to the plan until you see progress No

Your feed is a fishing pond. Stop posting and praying. Reply to 10 new posts a day with meaningful value. Add the interesting accounts to an engagement list. Follow the roadmap for 30 days and watch your reach skyrocket. Execution beats inspiration.

You don't have a content problem. You have a production problem. Everyone says "just be consistent". Cool. But HOW? How do you write 7 posts a week while building a business, serving clients, and not burning out? You can't. Not manually. That's why most creators post

If you need music to code, you're just addicted to stimulation. Prove me wrong. What's actually happening in your brain when you code with vs without music?

Content isn't a growth strategy. It's a filtering mechanism. You don't post to "grow your audience." You post to FILTER your audience. Every post repels some people and attracts others. That's the point. Generic content attracts generic followers. Spicy content attracts

Just upgraded my Supabase Edge Functions setup in the most sanity-saving way possible: I moved all my logs into Grafana Loki. Supabase’s default retention (24h on free, 7 days on Pro) made debugging real issues almost impossible (and the dashboard wasn’t helping). Loki fixed

Your corporate job isn't teaching you to build. It's teaching you to comply. Follow the process. Don't rock the boat. Wait for approval. Play politics. That's what gets rewarded. Shipping fast? Questioning decisions? Building without permission? That gets you labeled

Your followers don't remember you. Because you're not here enough. You post 2x/week. Ghost for 3 days. Post again. Ghost for 4 days. Your audience forgets you exist. The feed moves fast. If you're not showing up daily, you're invisible. I do daily posting. 4,000 followers in

The moment I realized corporate was a scam... An account manager sent me a PDF by mistake. A billing sheet. I wasn’t supposed to see it. $7,000 per month for the junior on my team $15,000 per month for the senior My salary? A tiny fraction of that Same hours. Same projects.

I thought working in tech meant building cool stuff. Turns out, most devs just survive it. I made $24K/year at a corporation. No one built anything outside work. No pride. No ownership. No curiosity. Just Jira tickets and burnout. I started to think this was normal. Until

I thought I'd rent forever. Then I built my own house with cash. Same skills. Same person. 2 years apart. At my corporate job making $24K/year, my "wealth plan" was: - Rent until I die - Maybe scrape together a down payment for a tiny apartment - Pray for raises that never

I declined a client. $220K/year. 40 hours/week on paper. One year contract. I said no. The founder was brilliant. Passionate. Had a real vision. But he worked 12-14 hour days. Expected the same from me. "We move fast here. You'll need to match my pace." I could've taken it.

Corporate taught me two things: Hide your salary. Hide your ambition. I was making $24K/year as a dev. Found out the guy next to me, 15 years experience same job, was making $30K. Six. Thousand. More. For fifteen years of loyalty. HR told me day one: "Never discuss your

If your posts offend no one, they’ll inspire no one. I played it safe online for 6 months. Wrote "nice" posts. Shared "helpful tips". Tried to sound agreeable so nobody would get mad. You know what it got me? 200 followers 0 real conversations A feed full of polite strangers

If you're a Software Developer working a 9-5: what's your biggest career frustration right now?

I watched the worst engineer on my team get promoted. Not because he shipped more. Not because he was better. Because he never challenged anything. He nodded in meetings. Repeated the manager’s opinions. Took credit without owning outcomes. I did the opposite. I

If you're a Software Engineer: What’s your biggest fear about going freelance?

"Job security" is the biggest lie corporate ever sold us. 209,215 tech workers laid off in 2025 alone. And we're not even done with the year. These weren't bad developers. They weren't underperformers. They were people who did everything right: Showed up early. Stayed late.

Three rejected requests for a raise when you're literally keeping the lights on? No way. That’s not a matter of market rate. That’s them hoping you never leave to see what you’re really worth.