Freelancer Hours is continuous collaboration between you and your clients made easy. No more back and forth proposals and negotations.
- Use Airtable to create a new client and set your variable/flat rate using JSON (for now)
- Send over your link with a time recommendation based on the required tasks.
- Your client requests a top up for the price/time they desire
- Invoice for the given time
- Once invoice is paid, get to work and be sure to track your time
- And... repeat to keep work consistent until the project or the series of tasks is complete.
- If client requests a timesheet, generate your timesheet for the requested period and email it through.
This web tool lets your clients:
- Track their remaining time with you
- Request a top up of time
- Request a timesheet
Benfits for you:
- Work only when your clients have purchased your time
- Variable rates depending on how long you're secured for
- Don't get underpaid for any given piece of work
- Minimise proposals and negotiation
Benefits for your clients:
- Pay as you go model for freelancing
- Don't waste time on proposal reviews
- Maximise time spent on actual business tasks
You can find a demo here: https://hours.webdoodle.com.au/buyte/
Use .env.example to create a .env file.
Here you can configure your Airtable Settings and provider your public functions/backend URL.
You can find an example Airtable base here: https://airtable.com/shr1N9EQKedRgVSGn
The stack includes:
- Frontend: React
- Backend: Serverless Node.js (AWS)
Frontend: yarn start
Backend: yarn start:lambda
For frontend assets we recommend using Netlify as it's a free service, it's highly available, and it leverages GitOps which makes life easy peasy.
For backend: sls deploy --stage prod
... be sure to have Serverless installed
npm i -g serverless
or
yarn global add serverless
- Airtable Configuration
- When setting a client's Link, be sure the pathname is the kebab cased version of the name. This includes whitespace. Name: Hello World Link: https://yourdomain.com/hello-world
- When setting your Hours Rates, we recommend using https://jsoneditoronline.org and then pasting back into the cell.