Portability
Freelancer’s Pond — one file, anywhere, forever
On Freelancer’s Pond — Time → Invoices → Revenue. Hours feed invoices, invoices feed revenue.
The Pond is a file. That is the whole portability story. It moves the way a Word document moves — email it, copy it to a drive, put it on Dropbox, sync it between machines. It runs offline on all of them.
The freelance laptop is not one laptop
You work from the studio, then the café, then the client's office, then the plane. Every subscription tool solves this with 'log in from anywhere,' which requires the anywhere to have Wi-Fi and their servers to be up. The Pond solves it by being a file.
Put it on your primary machine. Put a copy on the second one. Sync via any file-sync tool you already trust — or not, and pass a USB between them.
Offline is the default
The Pond works with the network cable pulled. Airport, cabin, train, third floor of a Berlin apartment building where the Wi-Fi does not reach. The tool does not care.
That is not resilience-in-case-of. That is the ground state.
One file, many jobs
Some freelancers keep one Pond per client, some keep one Pond total. Some fork the file to try a new invoicing shape. Because it is a file, it obeys the rules of files: copy, rename, move, keep.
Where the Pond runs
- Any browser after ~2018.No exotic APIs, no CSS at the frontier.
- Any OS.Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS.
- Any storage.SSD, HDD, USB, network drive, encrypted volume.
- Fully offline.First open populates the browser cache; then, forever, offline.
Questions people ask
Can I sync between two computers?
Yes — put the file in any folder your existing sync tool already handles (Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Syncthing). The Pond does not add its own sync; it plays nicely with yours.
Mobile?
It opens on mobile. It is not designed for a phone-sized screen for invoicing. Read on your phone, edit on a laptop.
How big does the file get?
Small. The bulk is JSON of your own data, and a freelancing year is a few hundred KB of it at most.
One file. Your work. Your machine. Anywhere you plug in.