247X - Building useful digital products - some for freelancers and independents, some for the businesses they work with, some born from the ideas that show up at 2am and won't leave. Every product does one thing well, is priced honestly, and never asks you to upgrade. The old-school handshake of doing business.
Currently shipping: three projects ↓Three products live, three audiences served, one standard of craft. Each one built to answer a specific problem without overstaying its welcome.
Pricing, contracts, and client-ops for freelancers who stopped undercharging. A live rate calculator, eight lawyer-reviewed contracts, nine invoice templates, the rate-raise letter that keeps 87% of clients through a 40% bump, and the playbooks that move independents from feast-or-famine to retainer-of-choice.
Visit the site →A no-signup utility that tells homeowners the exact replacement filter size for their furnace, AC, air purifier, whole house, or pool system. Pick your system, pick your brand, get the number. Free, ad-supported, built to answer the one question Google results usually bury under affiliate spam.
Find your filter size →The 2026 Trial Calendar — every high-profile case on the docket, where to watch it live, and why it matters. Court TV went dark; the trials didn't. A vetted monthly almanac for the people who refuse to miss the verdict, mapped state by state, anchor by anchor, feed by feed.
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Things that are being made. Nothing here is promised until it's shipped — that's the rule.
The recurring payment protocol for the XRP Ledger. Accept automatic subscriptions from any XRPL wallet — no banks, no chargebacks, no 2.9% fees. Payments that make a splash. Every drop counts.
Get notified when it launches →For parents who want kids who can think — not kids who can pass tests. A learning manifesto, a six-tool family of education products, and a state-by-state homeschool compliance kit. Built around one equation: F = T ∇ Sτ.
Get on the list →A citizen's reference to suing — and being sued — for modest sums in every American jurisdiction. Filing limits, fees, procedures, and the eight steps from grievance to judgment for all 50 states + DC. Free demand-letter generator built in.
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247X - The ideas don't stop. They arrive at 2am, in the shower, mid-conversation, and in dreams — the mind runs on its own schedule. 247X is where those ideas get turned into initiatives. Projects change. Categories change. The name doesn't.
The through-line is this: meaningful, useful software that does one thing well — for freelancers, for homeowners, for merchants, for anyone who wants to do business the old-school way.
My method is simple: notice a friction, build the tool to remove it. No grand theories, no platform plays, no building first and hoping someone shows up. The problem comes before the product.
This site is the workshop log. FreelancePro Toolkit, What Size Is My Filter, and The Trial Watcher have all shipped. CadencePay is in build. More after that. I'll post updates here as things get closer to real.
-Michael Johnson
