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I worked for several years in a very unique setup with me being the only developer. There was me, the supplier and a guy good with CSS. This supplier had a bunch of small customers, but nothing a developer couldn't handle in a several months span. Also, I couldn't bill more than 5 hours/day in a month, but it was fine, as the rate was good. Being a solo developer comes with some advantages like you get to choose your tools, libraries, frameworks, patterns or technologies and you get to work on all layers. As long as I delivered under the constrained budget and time, the supplier didn't really care how I did it. A big disadvantage was my only available friend when I was in trouble was StackOverflow and often wasn't much. I remember spending days and even nights to solve odd problems when it would have helped to have an experienced colleague to ask or even an extra pair of eyes to look into that missing semicolon. I somehow successfully managed to deliver those solu