My former boss treats freelancing as a prostitution in the software development industry. And he is damn right..

I've come to code for you again...

When this happens, I remember what my managers told me all my life "be loyal to your company!", but they never mentioned the company won't be loyal to you.

Oh, good to know I am a genius

@lucas22 right, but this works well for "hobby" projects. For Business there are better yet pricy options.

I cannot get how this is related to Microsoft. The same can be equally true for any other company/product.

I'm on AWS. My bill is 0.5$ / mo for simple static landing page.

I manage a dedicated VM for any occasional .NET development. But if this is your primary job - then why uninstall? :)

Even thought I have a good spec - it quickly becomes outdated as the service evolves. Developers often forget to update the specs.
In my practice I have to perform every rest call (e.g. with Postman) to make sure "the params, headers and response are matching the spec"!
Moreover I often have to dive into backend source code to check for edge cases.
That said - what you are doing is not that bad :)

@3ndriu good thought, thanks!

It is actually a good sign when you found a competitor. It is much worse otherwise. The next question should be this: how is popular this app? Can you make it better?

Keep looking for a better opportunity - there are plenty of them (long term and paid well). Don't judge on freelancing by few random picks from upwork strangers. Good luck!

Nothing is true if you are freelancer. Join the dark side and be happy in the New Year!

@SpencerBeige if the "middle" finger is missing then it would fail either. :)

Wouldn't be better to replace WHERE with "OFFSET 2 LIMIT 1"?

Is 2016 a valid element?

@Kernelovic good question.. at least I know my mouse will be safe until I find another job. :)

@erikdreyer11 look closer - the keyboard is the sexy Code keyboard by WASD, which is just awesome!

@rusty-hacker this is just to prevent you seeing what I'm coding right now :)

@Gauthier I bought Code with clear switches and this is much better imo

@uddinstock It's name "Cookie" :)