How do you get a freelance gig and quit your day job? Once you’ve got it, how do you ship working software that satisfies the majority the stakeholders at your client? What are the mistakes first-time freelancers make, and how can you avoid them?

Ben Brumfield will reveal the technical and business lessons he learned from his first major client project, touching on collaboration, communication, specialization, and MongoDB optimization. Mostly, however, he’ll go into detail on the mistakes he made and how the product was shipped despite them.