Author

Thomas Kraaibeek

Thomas Kraaibeek

Founder of CronLoom and one of the managing directors of Sprint Zero UG (haftungsbeschränkt) in Münster, the company that runs it. He is responsible for the content of the CronLoom blog and its guides.

Thomas is a software engineer from Münster. He holds an M.Sc. in computer science, started out in IT security and then spent several years as a full-stack engineer on enterprise software.

Since 2023 he has also worked independently for his own clients, building websites and software at fixed prices and by the hour. The guides come from the questions that work raises: which rate holds up, how many hours a fixed price really buys, and which client pays what per hour.

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How the guides are written

  • Each guide starts from a question freelancers search for, checked against what already answers it.
  • Every number is worked out in the text, linked to a dated source, or marked as an assumption.
  • Examples are labelled as examples. What a guide says about CronLoom is true of the shipped product.
  • The English and German versions are written separately, each for the words people search in that language.
  • Thomas reviews every guide before it is published.

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