Amazing, thank you for sharing!

So on point! "Notifications...It is an excellent way to keep everyone up to date on what’s going on, without spamming their inbox."

"There will be someone in your team or organization who is ultimately responsible for the quality of the creative product...Factor their time in and make sure those sign-off points are clearly communicated to your team."

That is one of things that rarely ever happened in projects I was part of. Always always factor in time for the review cycles!

"willing to pay a fair price for local talent" while that does happen, it is rare but I guess every opportunity is better than none. In recent years I have been saying yes to online work more often tho, so maybe times are changing.

doesn't blow me away but is definitely an improvement over their old UI

Very creative, took me a sec though haha.

nice site, love all the action react.js is getting lately!

I like it, looks nice and easy to understand, even for someone like me with zero sales lingo.

how badly is the performance drop? Manageable or disturbing?

few things (in addition to the other comments): Try lots of things, find out where your passion and what people need overlap and build you personal brand around that (blog about it, design concepts around that, etc.)