I love helping companies resurrect old Rails apps. If your app hasn't been touched in a while, has big performance problems, or just needs some new features, I'd love to help you out.
You need to build a backend for your mobile app, but you don't have the time to do it right. I'll build and manage your backend API so you don't have to worry about it, and we'll work together to help "futureproof" your app, to help you remotely manage your app, rather than constantly resubmitting it.
I build and manage custom backends for mobile apps: so if you have an app that needs server/cloud infrastructure behind it, you can focus on your app, while I focus on the backend that powers it.
I'm a mobile app backend specialist—I'll build, monitor, and maintain the backend services and API for your mobile app, so you can focus on what you do best. I primarily work with Ruby on Rails.
For me, reading blog posts helped build my confidence to be able to ask for higher rates—seeing that lots of other people charge over $100/hr can really help to convince yourself that you're worth that.
You are right though, that reading blog posts is not going to create that change—for me it really came the first time I said what I thought was a high rate ($135/hr), and there was no pushback at all from the client. I was kind of amazed at first that they thought I was worth it, but with one success in the bag, it gave me the confidence to move forward.
Some more recommendations: the book "Apollo" by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox is really excellent as an overview of everything that it took to get to the moon, as is the HBO mini-series "From The Earth to the Moon"
Note that in this case, your remote tracking branches wont be updated, so git status will say you are ahead of the remote, while you are in fact at the same point.
A "git fetch <remote>" would then update the remote tracking branches.
I love helping companies resurrect old Rails apps. If your app hasn't been touched in a while, has big performance problems, or just needs some new features, I'd love to help you out.
Email: kyle@3e8.io