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$180M+
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Our most impactful results from both sides of the marketplace.
Built a 6-person engineering team in 48 hours. Beta shipped on time.
When our Series A closed, we had 60 days to ship our public beta. HarryDesk let us assemble the entire team within 48 hours — 6 vetted engineers who committed code by day one. We shipped 3 days early …
48 hrs
Time to hire
40%
Overhead reduction
6
Engineers hired
3 days early
Beta delivery
Radhika Nair
CTO · Frameshift (YC W24)
Replaced 3 agency contractors with 5 direct hires at 35% lower cost.
We were spending £28,000/month on 3 contractors through an agency. Switching to HarryDesk, we now have 5 excellent engineers at £19,500/month — and they're more engaged because they're working with us…
£8,500
Monthly savings
+2
Engineers added
£4,200/mo
Agency fees eliminated
3 days
Time to first delivery
Marcus Thompson
VP Engineering · Meridian Payments
Found a HIPAA-compliant ML engineer in 72 hours. Competitor took 4 months.
We needed someone who understood HIPAA compliance AND could build our ML pipeline. Our competitor spent 4 months with three agencies and never found the right person. We posted on HarryDesk at 8am and…
72 hrs
Time to hire
4 months
Competitor time
8+ months
Engagement
Production deployed
Status
Isabella Chen
Head of Product · NovaMed Health
Built our entire mobile banking app with 2 HarryDesk developers. Raised $3.2M on it.
We needed a React Native developer and a backend engineer who understood African fintech regulation. HarryDesk's GEO filter let us find developers who had actually worked in African financial services…
$3.2M
Funding raised
2 devs
Team size
5
Months to launch
18+ months
Retention
James Osei
CTO · Finova Capital
From ₹65K/month local projects to $15K/month global consulting in 15 months.
I spent 4 years doing local web projects for ₹65,000/month. In January 2024 I joined HarryDesk, specialized in React + Next.js + Supabase, and attracted my first US client within a week. Fifteen month…
18x
Income growth
$85/hr
Hourly rate
4
Active clients
15 months
Tenure
Arjun Mehta
Full-Stack React Developer
Zero platform fees meant I kept an extra €12,000 last year.
I was on another platform paying 20% commission. On $60,000 in billings, that's $12,000 gone. HarryDesk's Pro tier costs €35/month and has zero commission. In my first full year, I kept €12,000 more t…
€12,000
Annual savings
€35/month flat
Platform fee
€8,500
Avg contract
78%
Client retention
Natasha Ivanova
Cybersecurity Consultant
14 stories found
Built a 6-person engineering team in 48 hours. Beta shipped on time.
When our Series A closed, we had 60 days to ship our public beta. HarryDesk let us assemble the entire team within 48 hours — 6 vetted engineers who committed code by day one. We shipped 3 days early …
48 hrs
Time to hire
40%
Overhead reduction
6
Engineers hired
3 days early
Beta delivery
Radhika Nair
CTO · Frameshift (YC W24)
Replaced 3 agency contractors with 5 direct hires at 35% lower cost.
We were spending £28,000/month on 3 contractors through an agency. Switching to HarryDesk, we now have 5 excellent engineers at £19,500/month — and they're more engaged because they're working with us…
£8,500
Monthly savings
+2
Engineers added
£4,200/mo
Agency fees eliminated
3 days
Time to first delivery
Marcus Thompson
VP Engineering · Meridian Payments
Found a HIPAA-compliant ML engineer in 72 hours. Competitor took 4 months.
We needed someone who understood HIPAA compliance AND could build our ML pipeline. Our competitor spent 4 months with three agencies and never found the right person. We posted on HarryDesk at 8am and…
72 hrs
Time to hire
4 months
Competitor time
8+ months
Engagement
Production deployed
Status
Isabella Chen
Head of Product · NovaMed Health
SAP S/4HANA migration delivered under budget. Zero agency involvement.
Our SAP migration had a €480K budget with an 18-month timeline. Through agencies, just the initial proposal phase cost €40K with no commitment. HarryDesk connected us with three specialized SAP archit…
€28K
Under budget
8 weeks
Timeline saved
€40K+
Agency fees avoided
7
Modules migrated
Andreas Müller
Engineering Director · Logistix GmbH
Built our entire mobile banking app with 2 HarryDesk developers. Raised $3.2M on it.
We needed a React Native developer and a backend engineer who understood African fintech regulation. HarryDesk's GEO filter let us find developers who had actually worked in African financial services…
$3.2M
Funding raised
2 devs
Team size
5
Months to launch
18+ months
Retention
James Osei
CTO · Finova Capital
Our Figma-to-code pipeline now delivers in 3 days, not 3 weeks.
HarryDesk's Figma-to-React specialists closed the gap between our in-house designers and overstretched dev team immediately. Our design implementation cycle went from 3 weeks to 3 days. The developers…
80%
Cycle reduction
3 days
Delivery time
45% lower
Cost per feature
Sophie Laurent
Digital Director · Atelier Mode
From ₹65K/month local projects to $15K/month global consulting in 15 months.
I spent 4 years doing local web projects for ₹65,000/month. In January 2024 I joined HarryDesk, specialized in React + Next.js + Supabase, and attracted my first US client within a week. Fifteen month…
18x
Income growth
$85/hr
Hourly rate
4
Active clients
15 months
Tenure
Arjun Mehta
Full-Stack React Developer
Zero platform fees meant I kept an extra €12,000 last year.
I was on another platform paying 20% commission. On $60,000 in billings, that's $12,000 gone. HarryDesk's Pro tier costs €35/month and has zero commission. In my first full year, I kept €12,000 more t…
€12,000
Annual savings
€35/month flat
Platform fee
€8,500
Avg contract
78%
Client retention
Natasha Ivanova
Cybersecurity Consultant
Working with US and EU clients from Lagos — $9,200/month, all via HarryDesk.
Being in Nigeria, I was invisible to international clients on traditional job boards. HarryDesk's global talent marketplace and verified skills badge changed that completely. I now earn $9,200/month w…
$9,200
Monthly income
3
Client countries
$1,100/mo
Before HarryDesk
24–48 hrs
Payout time
James Okafor
DevOps & Cloud Architect
LangChain and RAG systems are in massive demand. HarryDesk connects me to the right clients.
Most freelance platforms don't have clients with sophisticated enough AI projects. HarryDesk attracted enterprise and startup clients who genuinely need RAG systems, fine-tuned models, and LLM infrast…
€18,000
Monthly income
€25,000
Avg project value
85%
Repeat client rate
Tobias Weber
AI & LLM Engineer
7 Salesforce certifications, $140/hr, and a 3-month waitlist via HarryDesk.
After getting my 7th Salesforce certification I realized I was working for consulting firms at 30% of the rate they billed clients for me. HarryDesk let me go direct. Within 6 months, I was billing $1…
$140
Hourly rate
7 Salesforce
Certs
3 months
Client waitlist
3.2x income
vs. agency employment
Mei Lin
Salesforce Architect
Went from $800/month corporate salary to $6,500/month freelance consulting.
In 2023 I was earning $800/month as a data analyst at a Lagos bank. A colleague told me about HarryDesk. I built my profile, added 3 Power BI portfolio projects, and within 2 weeks had my first intern…
7x in 18mo
Income growth
$50–$65/hr
Hourly rate
$6,500
Monthly income
2 weeks
First client
Adaeze Obi
Business Intelligence Analyst
Built a fintech app for a US client. Paid out within 24 hours every milestone.
I was skeptical about platform-based freelancing after bad payment experiences elsewhere. HarryDesk's milestone escrow changed my view entirely. I completed a complex SwiftUI fintech app in 4 mileston…
< 24 hours
Payout speed
6 months
Project duration
4 on time
Milestones paid
Ongoing retainer
Post-project
Viktor Horváth
Senior iOS Engineer
30 apps published. HarryDesk clients account for 70% of my $11K monthly income.
I had 30 published apps but no way to reach clients who valued that experience. Within 3 months on HarryDesk, I landed a Finnish startup client who has since given me 4 consecutive projects. The portf…
$7,700
Monthly from HarryDesk
30+
Published apps
14 months
Longest relationship
4.97/5
Avg review score
Sofia Petrov
Mobile App Developer
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