Who he is
Valerio Donfrancesco is a UX/UI and product designer. He runs Bytelegion, a small software and design studio registered in Estonia, and works as a freelancer himself.
He built Freeboard for his own irregular income, months before it was a product: it is still the tool he opens every morning.
What he writes here
Freeboard’s guides and news for freelancers: platform fees and payouts, budgeting on irregular income, and tax changes that affect the self-employed in Europe, the UK and the US.
How the news is written
- Facts from official pages: the platform’s help center, the tax authority, the text of a bill. They are linked at the bottom of every story, with the date they were read.
- Drafts are prepared with an AI assistant from those sources, then checked, edited and signed by Valerio.
- No paid placements. Where a page has referral links, it says so next to them.
- Corrections are made in the story, with a note. Write to hello@freeboard.money.
Nothing here is tax, legal or financial advice.