Stop Letting People Waste Your Time As A Developer (opens in new tab)

Every developer eventually meets someone who thinks code takes five minutes to write. They message you out of nowhere. They want a full feature built in an hour. No requirements. No reference. Just urgency and pressure. And the moment you ask for fair payment they act surprised like you are asking for too much. I learned this the hard way early in my freelancing journey. Someone reached out at night asking for a complete authentication system built in one hour. I explained that real working l...