Payment Tracking Tool for Freelancers
10+ years as a freelance UI/UX designer. Zero coding background. Always had app ideas but couldn't build them. Then AI tools changed everything. Spent a few months building [MileStage](https://milestage.com) \- a payment tracking tool for freelancers. It's live, real users, real money flowing through. **What it does:** Breaks projects into stages. Each stage locks until the client pays the previous one. No more delivering everything and then chasing invoices. No more "can we just add one more thing" while payment sits unpaid. **The stack (no-code friendly except where noted):** * Supabase (database + auth) - very no-code approachable * Stripe Connect (payments) - needed some logic here * Vercel (hosting) - basically drag and drop * AI tools did the heavy lifting on React/TypeScript **Hardest part?** Stripe webhooks. AI got me 80% there. The last 20% I had to actually learn what was happening. Worth it though. **The result:** A real product solving a real problem I had for years. $19/month, zero transaction fees, 14-day free trial. [milestage.com](https://milestage.com) Anyone else here gone from no-code to "some code with AI help"? Curious how others are bridging that gap.