Pricing, clients, process, and staying sane while doing it alone.
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About
My name is Andrea Reale. I have been building websites for small businesses and professional services firms for over a decade — what started as design work expanded into front-end development, project management, and eventually running the whole show solo.
I made Solo Web Pros for freelance web people who know how to do the work but were never really taught how to run the business around it. The gap is obvious once you go solo: suddenly the hard part is not writing code or launching a site, it is pricing cleanly, setting expectations, getting paid on time, and keeping your practice from quietly falling apart.
Most freelance advice is either too broad or too shiny. It talks about freelancing as a vague freedom lifestyle, or it aims at consultants in every field at once, which usually means the advice stops being useful the moment a real website project starts moving. Web work has its own rhythms: staging sites, content delays, handoff friction, hosting questions, revision spirals, and clients who assume every edit takes five minutes.
This site stays close to that reality. I write about the business mechanics between the code and the client: proposals, contracts, onboarding, project pacing, rate changes, lead qualification, and the boundary-setting that keeps a solo practice functional.
A practical resource for freelance designers, developers, and generalist web people who want a steadier one-person business. The pieces here are meant to be used: scripts you can borrow, clauses you can adapt, and systems you can actually run without hiring a team.
It is not a coding tutorial site, a marketplace, a job board, or a performance of freelance success. I am not interested in flexing, and I am not interested in telling you to scale into an agency if what you really want is a solid solo practice.
I tend to trust quiet systems more than heroic effort. A better contract is usually more useful than a pep talk. A tighter onboarding email saves more energy than another productivity app. A higher minimum project price fixes problems that people often misdiagnose as a time-management issue.
That is the lens behind the site. Honest, grounded, and as specific as possible. If a sentence could apply to any freelancer in any field, it probably does not belong here.
If that sounds useful, the start here page is the best way into the writing.