For the last while I've been building FLEO — an offline tool that helps freelancers see whether their projects are actually profitable, not just whether they got paid.
The thing that pushed me to build it: I kept running the same calculation for different freelancers and getting the same uncomfortable answer. Take a $3,000 project, 80 hours, a $40/hour target rate. On paper: profit. Once you subtract the value of the freelancer's own time: -$200.
Nobody prices like this on purpose. It happens because "revenue" and "profit" get treated as the same number, and because tax and rate math lives in someone's head instead of somewhere they actually update.
FLEO is my attempt to fix that without becoming Yet Another SaaS Subscription. It's a single HTML file — works offline, no account, no server, data never leaves your device. Inside: a rate calculator that reverse-engineers your hourly rate from your real cost of living, a project profit tracker that separates gross from net profit, a tax estimator covering progressive brackets and social contributions for 12 countries, and an invoice generator (including an Italian Fattura mode and EU reverse-charge).
Would love feedback from anyone here who's freelanced long enough to have been burned by a project that "made money" on paper but didn't actually pay. What would you want a tool like this to also do?
You can check it out here: https://fleo.vorneaux.com/
The distinction between “profitable on paper” and actually paying for the freelancer’s time is a strong problem definition. The offline-first constraint also makes the product feel deliberately different from typical freelancer finance tools.
Really appreciate that. The "profitable on paper" vs. "actually worth your time" gap is the core problem I'm trying to solve. And yes, making it offline-first was intentional—I wanted something people could trust with sensitive financial data without another account or subscription.
That makes sense. The offline-first decision adds an interesting layer to how people might evaluate the product.
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