Freelance deals often die in the gaps between tools. You send a document for the proposal, a PDF for the contract, an electronic signature link, and then a payment link in another email. I built Pactiamo to collapse all of that into one single link. Here are five technical and product decisions I made along the way and why I stand by them.
Zero client accounts at any cost. Every signup screen a client sees is a place where a deal can fall through. The public share page is entirely server rendered so it works perfectly on slow connections without heavy JavaScript hydration. It captures signatures without requiring authentication. We just record the signer identity directly with the signature including their name, email, and a timestamp. That single constraint drove my architecture more than any specific framework choice.
I take zero percent of payments because I never touch the money. Users simply embed their own Stripe, PayPal, or bank links. I originally considered acting as a merchant of record. But that brings in chargebacks, payouts, and KYC regulations. It is basically a completely different business model. Sticking to a flat subscription keeps the codebase and the trust model simple since the funds never pass through my servers.
