Available for the right project

Software engineer.
Starting at $1.

I build useful software for real customers in public. From A Dollar starts my rate at $1/hour and lets completed work, demand, and delivery quality reveal what my engineering time is worth.

Tell me what you need See the live experiment

Current rateLive

^$1

per hour

Day 021 quiet day

Next accepted project$3/hr

00Requested proposals

00Awaiting review

00Work in progress

02dExperiment running

01The short version

I turn unclear problems
into shipped software.

I’m an experienced software engineer who can move from problem discovery to architecture, implementation, launch, and iteration. The work can be a web product, mobile app, internal tool, AI workflow, game, or automation system.

This site is my public salary-discovery experiment. Instead of guessing my market value from titles or salary surveys, I’m using real client work: each accepted project raises the rate, and quiet demand lowers it.

Tell me what is slow, manual, confusing, or missing. I’ll shape it into a practical software project and build the version that creates value first.

WebMobileAI & automationGamesInternal tools

02Experience that matters

Built for real users, not just demos.

From A Dollar is new, but the engineering behind it is not. I’ve spent years shipping production software at NAVER, one of South Korea’s largest technology companies, studied artificial intelligence at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and built systems people actually use.

Platforms

Built and launched complete products that work across browsers and mobile devices.

Years

Building, launching, and maintaining production software, including work at NAVER.

800+

People taught

Led practical internal sessions showing teams how to use new AI tools in their everyday work.

15M+

Monthly users served

Experience working on digital services used by millions of people every month.

I can take your project from an unclear initial idea to a deployed product: defining what is needed, building it, launching it, and keeping it reliable.

03The experiment

Let the market set the price.

No hidden quote. No inflated agency rate. The rules are public, and the number moves only when the market moves it.

Start a conversation

It started at $1/hour.

One simple number. No minimum project size.

Each new project adds $2.

The next client always sees the updated public rate.

3 quiet days subtract $1.

The price corrects itself when demand slows down.

Long projects have a floor.

Work over 40 hours is only accepted at $7.25/hour or above.

04Price over time

Every movement tells a story.

When the rate stays within a $3 range for a full month, I’ll call that my current market value.

Rate history

Current $1/hr

Hourly rate

05Your proposal

Have something
worth building?

Describe the problem, not the solution. I’ll review every serious proposal and reply if I’m a good fit.

Not sure what to ask for?

You don’t need a detailed proposal.

Tell me your problem or rough idea. I’ll help turn it into a buildable software concept and ask you the right questions.

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Software engineer.Starting at $1.

I turn unclear problemsinto shipped software.