As I covered in my last blog, QuickBooks sucks for international freelancers. It's expensive and awkward, and just not fit for purpose. As part of building my own Craig Mod inspired invoicing and personal finance tool, I realised that there was the core of something other people could use there. So I spun it out. It's called Fieldfare.
Fieldfare is invoicing for freelancers done right. I've worked as a freelance writer for US and UK for the last 15 years. I've lived in Europe and Asia, and traveled a lot. Getting paid in dollars but spending in euros, rupiah, rupees, and more is a logistical nightmare. Fieldfare makes the process a lot simpler by making multi-currency invoicing and expense tracking central to the app, not just a bolted on extra feature alongside all sorts of inventory management, team settings, and more.
I want Fieldfare to be a truly global tool. I've worked with a lot of freelancers from around the world, not just the West. As a result, Fieldfare is free for 10 invoices a month and three clients. There's also a free invoice generator that doesn't require signing up for anything. Paid plans are currently priced in USD, EUR, GBP, INR, PHP, and BRL. It works out somewhere between $3 and $5 a month, and the plan is to add more currencies as we scale.
I'm the only person building it so far, so if you do check it out, I'd love to hear what you think. You can reach me here.
Fieldfare is the first project I'm announcing but it's not the only thing I've been working on. It's incredible how much faster it is to build and ship with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and the other coding agents. Apparently GitHub commits are up 14X from last year. I know I've contributed a few hundred to that stat.
Until next time.
