Freelancing basics, interesting groups in Brighton & more – notes from 22nd July 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 22nd July, nine freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk all things freelancing and tech. A new freelancer joined us for the first time, so we had plenty of conversations around freelancing standards. This is some of what we talked about:
- Government Digital Services is moving to be under Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Porting an iPhone app to Android with help from an AI/LLM
- RAM prices going insane
- Marginal tax rates
- What we all do
- Receiving fan mail about your app
- Terms and conditions
- How often will clients not pay?
- Product Tank meet up
- Local LLMs
- Meet up groups in Brighton
- Red flags waved by potential clients
- How to facilitate discussion in meet up groups
- Always be looking for your next freelance project
- AI embed chunking layers
- Quality work is usually better than fast work
- Keeping in contact with past colleagues
- Communicating with clients
- Aggregating AI agents
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a lovely evening!