Shayan Basu Roy

Genuine question for other freelancers/agencies here , what's your actual workflow for making sure you get paid before the deliverables leave your hands? I've seen everything from watermarked previews to just holding files in a paid Notion doc to people who've just accepted eating the loss sometimes. Curious what's actually worked for you, or what's burned you.

For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.