| 1 | --- |
| 2 | title: Saturn V1 |
| 3 | description: Saturn 1.0 is here |
| 4 | date: 2026-04-27 |
| 5 | version: 1.0.0 |
| 6 | --- |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Saturn is the operating system for your freelance business. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | If you've ever stitched together Notion for project notes, Toggl for time, |
| 11 | Stripe for invoices, Google Docs for requirements, and a Slack DM for client |
| 12 | sign-off — Saturn is the thing that replaces all of it. One workspace, one |
| 13 | login, one bill, end-to-end. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ## Why Saturn |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Freelance work isn't really about the work. It's about everything around it: |
| 18 | scoping a project, getting the client to actually agree to the scope, tracking |
| 19 | the hours, sending an invoice that ties back to those hours, chasing payment, |
| 20 | and then doing it again next month. Most of us patch this together with five |
| 21 | or six tools that don't talk to each other, and the seams show up as missed |
| 22 | hours, scope creep, and invoices nobody can verify. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Saturn is built around the workflow itself, not around any single artifact. |
| 25 | A requirement signed by your client this morning is the same requirement your |
| 26 | hours roll up to this afternoon and the same requirement that ends up as a |
| 27 | line item on next week's invoice. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ## What you get |
| 30 | |
| 31 | - **Projects, milestones, and requirements** — write requirements in a real |
| 32 | editor, route them to the client, get them signed off, and use them as the |
| 33 | unit of work everything else hangs off. |
| 34 | - **Timesheets** — log hours against requirements, mark them billable, |
| 35 | approve them as a workspace owner, and export the week as xlsx. |
| 36 | - **In-app time tracking** — start a timer on any requirement, stop it when |
| 37 | you're done, and it becomes a regular time entry. No separate tool. |
| 38 | - **Invoices** — generated from your tracked hours and expenses, with PDF |
| 39 | export, your own numbering scheme, default currency per workspace, and |
| 40 | client sign-off built in. |
| 41 | - **Expenses** — track them, attach them to a project, get them approved or |
| 42 | reimbursed, and roll them into invoices. |
| 43 | - **Clients** — give clients a dedicated portal where they review and sign |
| 44 | requirements, milestones, and invoices, without needing a Saturn account. |
| 45 | - **Team** — invite members, set roles, and put a base rate on each member so |
| 46 | invoices know what to charge. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ## Pricing |
| 50 | |
| 51 | Saturn is free to try with sensible limits, and **Pro is one flat |
| 52 | subscription per owner — unlimited workspaces, unlimited members.** Not per |
| 53 | seat, not per workspace. If you're running three side projects under three |
| 54 | workspaces, that's still one Pro plan. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | The free tier exists so you can run a real project end-to-end without a card. |
| 57 | Upgrade when you outgrow the limits, downgrade whenever. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | ## How to contribute |
| 60 | |
| 61 | - **Feature requests and bug reports** live on |
| 62 | [Featurebase](https://saturn.featurebase.app |
| 63 | next — we genuinely build from that list. |
| 64 | - **Help spread the word.** If Saturn saved you an afternoon of admin this |
| 65 | week, tell another freelancer. That's the whole growth strategy. |
| 66 | - **Want to become a part of Saturn's development?** Saturn is opensource at |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ## Get started |
| 69 | |
| 70 | 1. Sign up at [saturn.procrastinator.fyi](https://saturn.procrastinator.fyi |
| 71 | 2. Create a workspace. |
| 72 | 3. Spin up your first project, write a requirement, send it to a client. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | That's V1. Welcome aboard. |