The freelancer's operating system
Make it easy to hire you.
Yoursellf is a consultancy in a box: a dead-simple site where you say what you do, sell it by the hour, and keep every client and their hours in one place, so you can spend less time chasing work and more time doing it.
From $20 a month. No cut of what you earn. Cancel whenever.
Sam Okafor
I fix things by the hour.
Work
Buy time
Stripe checkout. No account, no form.
Stop fishing for whales.
Most freelancers are set up to land one big client. A portfolio, a proposal template, weeks spent making a site look good. But plenty of businesses just want to try someone out on a small problem before they commit to anything bigger. Say what you do in plain words. Give them an offer that won't break the bank. Let them try you. The big projects come later, from clients who already know you.
The longer version →Live today
Your site has one job.
Clients don't come to admire your site. They want to know what you do, what it costs, and how to start. A Yoursellf site is only that, so it's live the day you sign up.
Learn more →The template site
- About
- Services
- Portfolio
- Testimonials
- Blog
Sound familiar? A site from 2019 you're scared to log into. It ends in a contact form that has caught two spam bots and one recruiter.
Your site
I fix things by the hour.
What you do, what it costs, and a way to buy. There's nothing to design, so you can launch today.
Prices on the page
Put the price where they can see it.
When there's no price on the page, every conversation starts from zero. Put your prices on the site and there's nothing to negotiate. The people who were never going to pay your rate go away before they cost you an hour.
Learn more →Pitch, then price
- Pitch
- Scoping call
- Proposal
- Quote
- Wait
- “Another direction”
Sound familiar? 'What's your rate?' 'It depends on the scope.' Three emails later you name a number and they go quiet.
Price, then talk
- They read your site
- One conversation
- They buy a block
- You start
They read the price, have one short conversation, and buy. The talk is about the work, not the number.
Checkout
They can buy your time like anything else.
Between wanting to hire you and actually hiring you, there's usually a form, a login, and a bank transfer. People give up at every one of them. Yoursellf puts a Stripe checkout on your site. They don't need an account, and there's no form to fill in.
Learn more →The portal
- Create an account
- Verify the email
- Log in
- Find the invoice
- Bank transfer
- Three business days
Sound familiar? 'Just make an account on the portal and I'll send the invoice.' They meant to. They got busy.
Your site
- Pick a block
- Pay
- Receipt
They pick a block, pay, and get a receipt with the hours on it. It takes about as long as buying anything else online.
Paid first
Get paid before you start.
Clients pay for a block up front, through Stripe, straight into your account. The hours sit in their balance and go down as you work. Nobody can stiff you for work they already paid for.
Learn more →Invoice after
- Do the work
- Send the invoice
- Day 30
- Day 45
- “Just checking in”
- Day 60
Sound familiar? Net 30 that turns into net 60. The polite reminder, the less polite one, and then 'we're disputing hour four.'
Prepaid
- They pay
- You work
The money lands before the first hour. The only invoice that always gets paid is the one they paid before you started.
The clock
The clock is the trust.
You work on a timer that counts down the hours they bought. What they paid for and what they got are the same number, and both of you can see it.
Learn more →The invoice
“Can you break that down?”
Sound familiar? 'Consulting, 12 hours, $1,800.' They squint at it. You get defensive. The next block never gets bought.
The ledger
Every hour, and what it went on. Vague hours are how a good client starts to feel cheated. Here there aren't any.
One record
One record, not four subscriptions.
The purchase, the client, their hours and their to-do list are one record. Every client sits in one place with their hours and what's next. That's how a few small jobs start to feel like one job.
Learn more →Duct tape
| A site | Squarespace | $19 |
| Booking | Calendly | $12 |
| Invoices | FreshBooks | $19 |
| Time tracking | Harvest | $11 |
| Client to-dos | Basecamp | $15 |
Sound familiar? Squarespace, Calendly, FreshBooks, Harvest, Basecamp. Seventy-six dollars a month, and none of them talk to each other. You're the glue.
Yoursellf
| A site | Included | |
| Checkout | Included | |
| Clients | Included | |
| Hours | Included | |
| To-dos | Included |
From $20 a month for all of it. One login for you. Your clients don't need one.
Pivot
Change your offer in an afternoon.
You edit the site on the page itself. Press Edit, change the words and the prices, press Save. When you move from design into development, or from development into marketing, the new offer is up before dinner.
Learn more →The old site
UX design for startups
Last updated 2019
To: the developer who built it
“Hi! Any chance you could update my services page? No rush.”
Sound familiar? Your site still says what you did in 2019. Updating it means finding the theme, the password, and the person who built it.
Your site
Growth marketing, by the hour
Saved just now
Edit, type, save. The page you show clients is the page you edit, so it never falls behind the work.
How it works
They buy a block, you do the work, they buy another.
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They find your site.
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A short conversation.
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They buy a block of your hours.
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You do the work on the clock, and their hours go down.
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When the block runs out, they buy another.
Why this exists
The way companies hire hasn't caught up.
Remote work made every job a global competition. AI made a lot of routine work cheap. And the way companies hire hasn't caught up.
Yoursellf is built for a market where work comes in pieces and you earn your reputation one gig at a time.
Looking for a job?
This works if you're job hunting too. A few small jobs say more than a resume. They're proof that you solved a real problem, not just a list of where you worked and went to school. When a full-time role opens up, they already know you.
Pricing
One price.
From $20 a month
Cancel whenever. Your site stays up to the end of what you paid for.
Launch your siteWhat you get
- Your site, live in minutes.
- Blocks of your time for sale on it.
- Stripe checkout, paid into your own account.
- No cut of what you earn.
- No client limit.
- A timer that draws down their hours.
- Every client, their hours and their to-dos in one list.
- Pages and posts for the rest of what you want to say.
- Your own domain.
Questions
- Can anyone just buy my time?
- No. The site holds the offer, but you choose who you work with. If someone buys and you'd rather not, refund them from Stripe in a click.
- My clients expect a proposal and a contract.
- The block is the scope, the price, and the commitment in one. If they need paperwork, send it after they've said yes.
- How fast do I get paid?
- Straight into your own Stripe account, the moment they pay. Stripe pays out to your bank on its usual schedule.
- I already have a full pipeline. Is this for me?
- Yes, for consults and mentoring by the hour, on top of what you've already built.
- Can I leave and take my stuff?
- Your clients and their payments are in your Stripe account, not ours. Your writing is plain HTML on a site you own. Cancel from your account whenever you like.
- What can't I do here?
- There are no themes, plugins, or layout options. Anything we add has to earn its place.
Launch your site
Your name becomes your address. From $20 a month.