ricardocabellov5.5

Finally reaching the 6th month mark. Seems that is going well.

I still have to get better on delivery times, but I think i'm good enough dealing with clients, answering emails and stuff.

There is some stuff you would need if you want to go freelance. The first one, I called it Econodoob ;) and its money/invoice/time tracker. I just implemented the time tracker today. So you submit the amount+time spent, and having all the info then you only need to do some nice Graphs. I'm afraid I don't think is a good idea to share those graphs, but I've done something like..

Cashflow (real)
Cashflow (theoric)
Time spent
Invoice value (input)
Bills value (output)

Yeah, it's cashflow because I include the bills I've to pay to see what goes in and out. If you want to make sure that the 'business' is going well, you need that kind of visibility. And to be honest, doing a tool with PHP to record/track/report all that info is a matter of 1day of work. Isn't it cool to have the knowledge to develop your own little apps so you don't depend of other BIG apps that you will use only a 1% of them?

The other thing you will probably need to do is to move to an office. Working a home gets very annoying at some point. You need some place, some environment that makes you think: "Right, I'm at work, I should be working now". Right now, I watch a movie if I feel like, it's too easy to get distracted.

So the idea is renting a desk in an office, so I would end up sharing the office with other people, freelancers, companies... By now, the best place I've found to look at is at the gumtree. I should be going tomorrow Friday to watch a nice one, see how it goes