What kind of projects do you turn down?

Honesty: I turn down ~30% of incoming briefs. Common reasons:

• Magento 1.x maintenance. The platform is EOL since 2020. I’ll happily migrate you to M2.4.9, but I won’t patch M1 indefinitely.
• "Just clone Shopify" briefs. If the right answer is Shopify, I’ll tell you so — but I won’t pretend Magento is the right tool when it isn’t.
• Pure design work. I write code, not Figma files. I’ll partner with your designer or recommend one.
• Adult / gambling / regulated grey-area. Personal preference, no judgment.
• Sub-$500 budgets for non-trivial work. The math doesn’t work and I can’t do good work at that price.