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Harvest Raised Prices 10x — Here's What Freelancers Actually Need From an Invoice Tool
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Harvest Raised Prices 10x — Here's What Freelancers Actually Need From an Invoice Tool

DEV Community·wubing-wx·7 months ago
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If you're a freelancer who used Harvest for time tracking and invoicing, you probably got the email: Bending Spoons acquired Harvest and raised prices from $12/mo to as high as $1,900/mo .

Meanwhile, FreshBooks caps you at 5 clients on their Lite plan. Toggl tracks time but can't generate invoices. And QuickBooks is an accounting degree disguised as software.

Freelancers don't need enterprise tools. We need something dead simple.

What Freelancers Actually Need

I talked to dozens of freelancers on Reddit (r/freelance, r/consulting, r/webdev). The pattern is crystal clear:

Track time — start/stop timer or log hours manually

Generate invoices — turn time entries into professional PDFs

Get paid — Stripe link on the invoice, client clicks and pays

No client limits — seriously, why is this even a thing?

That's it. Not a CRM. Not an ERP.…

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