Enjoy work and be in the same boat
- Do the big things. Ourselves and also for our users.
- Have balance between work and personal life.
- We believe that only a relaxed team can do something spectacular.
Freelo is celebrating its 10th birthday. We are establishing a full-fledged product department and are preparing a major update to Freelo, which will come early next year. It's not just a new coat - we're building on a completely new system design that will make Freelo faster, prettier and more enjoyable to use. We're finally adding a proper dark mode. There's no need to worry about big changes, Freelo's controls will remain very similar, but the feeling of using it will be many times better.
We're working on AI for Freelo, doing in-depth user interviews and research. Moving infrastructure to the cloud for more reliability. We're automating internal processes with AI. Despite staff changes and major investments in upgrading Freelo, we are growing turnover as planned and look forward to big news in the new year.
A year full of major news. We're launching a cross-project Timeline, adding time estimates to tasks, an Out of Office feature, and revolutionizing the way custom fields work (date, yes/no, dropdown). We're expanding repeat task options and improving notifications for greater clarity.
We're starting to get more into video content - creating webinars, hands-on tutorials and tips to help thousands of users get more out of Freelo. From comment responses to advanced filters, the app is getting dozens of improvements.
Changelog is bursting at the seams. We are launching the long-awaited Timeline feature. A few months later, Freelo undergoes a redesign that brings new task detail, easy switching between views, and clearer project detail. Plus, it makes the whole app faster and more modern.
What happens throughout the company cannot stand and fall with us as captains of Freela, so for the first time we are appointing captains of Sales, Customer Support and Marketing. We are working in partnership with Essential College to ensure that we remain a healthy learning organisation even in larger numbers.
This year was marked by a lot of new features in the application and internal changes necessary for better management of the company.
The app's most notable new features include Make.com integration, Mind Map, Custom Fields, a redesign of the main menu and iOS app, new look and feel, video and voice message recording, and dozens of other improvements. We're making good on our resolution to deliver important features to the app faster
We learn to manage the company better - we create roles, competency matrices, gain experience with HR and build the Sales Department. All the necessary steps to make the company prosper and continue to grow turnover.
Four new sailors are hired for customer support, marketing, PHP backend and frontend. It doesn't stop there, we're looking for more awesome people, join us too.
We are preparing to expand abroad. We are translating the website and app into ten more languages. We are preparing a marketing plan to help us succeed outside the Czech Republic.
We are strengthening the PHP backend development and starting to work on a new section Files in projects.
We're constantly improving the app and getting important features to users faster.
We are taking our new Support member Kate to the #FreeloHackathon in Croatia and we are focusing on developing key functions.
In following months we are expanding the team again to cover substitution.
We attend conferences, train and look for meaningful collaborations. We realize that we need to meet our users.
The turning point comes and Freelo gradually turns to black numbers. We're looking for a customer service person to join us.
We are changing our home-office for an office in Pardubice, which we call Podpalubí.
For more than half a year we have been working on how to set a new adequate price. It is clear that without such a change Freelo cannot work in the long term.
We're adding new features, plans and raise a price. We are pleasantly surprised because most users are willing to accept the new price.
We're launching a podcast called Z Podpalubi, building a community of SaaSkari, and investing all of our revenue into marketing and development.
In our first year, only a handful of users were paying and with such generous pricing, revenue wasn’t exactly booming. We’re grateful for all the feedback we get and always try to accommodate meaningful feature requests.
We've built everything ourselves, and the first year's revenue wasn't even worth mentioning. The growing interest now shows us the direction to take, and we’re turning the ship 180 degrees — Freelo needs to be a tool built for teams.
We are looking for a tool that would serve Freelancers for easy collaboration with clients (note: hence the name Freelo). Frustration and unfulfilled expectations when trying existing tools leads us to create our own application. We miss tasks with clear communication, work reports and client invoicing. After a year of development, the first version of Freelo is created.
We create Freelo on weekends, evenings and ”free days" when we don't earn bread in other companies. It's not easy, but we enjoy it and the positive feedback from users drives us forward.
