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RateForge
Freelance rates backed by math, not gut feeling.
RateForge is a free calculator that turns your income goals, expenses, billable hours, and time off into the hourly and day rate you should actually charge. Get an AI-generated, shareable rate report in seconds, no sign-up, no spreadsheet gymnastics.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built RateForge because most freelancers set their rates by guessing, copying someone else's, or just accepting whatever a client offers. Then they wonder why they're working 50-hour weeks and barely breaking even.
RateForge does the math properly. You enter your income goal, business expenses, billable hours, and time off, it calculates the hourly and day rate you actually need to charge. Not a generic "industry average," but your number.
A few things I focused on:
Real math, accounts for non-billable time, taxes, expenses, and vacation (the stuff most freelancers forget to price in)
AI-generated rate report, a shareable breakdown you can use to justify your rate to clients or just sanity-check yourself
Zero friction, no sign-up, no email wall, free
Would love your feedback on:
Is the calculation missing anything you factor into your own rate?
Would you actually share the report with a client?
Anything confusing in the flow?
Thanks for checking it out! 🙏
About RateForge on Product Hunt
“Freelance rates backed by math, not gut feeling.”
RateForge was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 20 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #36 on the daily leaderboard. RateForge is a free calculator that turns your income goals, expenses, billable hours, and time off into the hourly and day rate you should actually charge. Get an AI-generated, shareable rate report in seconds, no sign-up, no spreadsheet gymnastics.
On the analytics side, RateForge competes within Productivity, Freelance and Fintech — topics that collectively have 734.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how RateForge performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted RateForge?
RateForge was hunted by Issam Hamed. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of RateForge including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Issam Hamed