Why I Built Frihet Solo: One Developer, Zero Investors

Three years ago I was billing clients from a Google Sheet, tracking expenses in a second spreadsheet, reconciling bank transactions in a third, and manually moving numbers between all of them at quarter end. I had tried every ERP on the Spanish market. Each one solved part of the problem while introducing new ones: slow interfaces, features I'd never use, pricing that made no sense for a solo freelancer, and a general sense that the software was designed for a company with an IT department, not for one person working alone. So I built Frihet myself. The problem I was solving The Spanish ERP market is full of tools built for larger companies that were later "simplified" for freelancers. The architecture stayed the same -- heavy, slow, enterprise-grade. What changed was the interface: fewer menu items, a lighter color scheme, a smaller price tag. None of that addressed the actual problem. When you work alone or run a small team, the bottleneck is not which modules you have access to. The