Americans love a good reinvention story. Embedded in the American psyche is a requisite love for second chances—second acts, if you will. That’s why we love Silicon Valley.

Am I charging too much? Not enough? Am I saving enough for retirement? Making the most out of my tax breaks? The freelancers we surveyed this year had a lot on their minds—and a lot of advice to offer. 

You’ve most likely taken some form of a personal assessment. Myers-Briggs, enneagram, Rorschach, or even BuzzFeed’s classic “Which Office character are you?” test. Whether you’re a 7 with a 4 wing or Dwight Schrut, the end goal is to gain better ...

Most of the working world has been slow to embrace the growing remote-work trend, with many companies frantically searching for remote strategies at the last minute as the coronavirus shut offices across the world. However, inside the tech industry, ...

With route optimization software you’ll spend much less time planning – and the routes produced will be far superior to manually created routes.

The trend to remote work has been gaining momentum for much of the last decade. However, it wasn’t until the COVID-19 crisis that work-from-home arrangements became the norm rather than the exception. The pandemic forced mass remote working, and ...

Everyone knows the first step to acquiring quality talent, regardless of your recruiting process, starts with a quality job post. There is an art to creating a compelling job post that captures the attention of top technical talent while including a ...

Gun.io is the first modern-day guild for independent software professionals. We’ve represented some of the highest-earning software freelancers in the US, and today, we are opening our app to the public. Claim your profile, get verified, and match ...

Over the last several months, we’ve compiled a ton of feedback from the community about what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to working through the Gun.io platform. We learned a ton. The common thread throughout all of this feedback was: we ...

  Does this sound familiar? You've started a new project with a new client. You've got your backlog to work on and you get to work. You get into the groove for a week or three and rock out a bunch of those tickets or get that awesome feature nearly ...

  Table Of Contents: 1. Introduction to Django Templates 2. Balancing Time and Cost 3. Converting Images to Structured Data  4. Converting Images to Byte Arrays For S3 5. Horizontal Slicing Method 6. Vertical and Horizontal Slicing Combined

  If you have been in the professional job market for a while, you have probably heard of the SMART acronym when it comes to goals, or the idea that truly smart deadlines are set by someone else. However, as a professional freelancer, these ideas ...