Last month I shipped RateForge, a free freelance rate calculator that generates AI-powered, shareable client reports. Total build time: a weekend. Ongoing maintenance: zero. Here's the full story, what worked, and what I'd do differently.
The problem
Every freelancer I know has typed "how much should I charge as a freelancer" into Google at 2am. The answers are always vague blog posts: "it depends on your experience!" Thanks.
What freelancers actually want is a number. Better yet, a number they can show a client to justify their rate.
So RateForge does two things:
