Thanks! Moving into contracting has been sort of a revelation for me. I'm working where I want to, when I want to, and—as long as I can respond to my clients in a reasonable timeframe—when I want to.
The only 'downside' is that I don't know if I could ever go back into a traditional corporate environment at this point.
I had a really similar experience after I quit my corporate job. As a lot of people here have noted before, it's a lot easier to get into the startup mentality if you've left the corporate world and contracting works for you.
I took the theme, converted it into Haml and SCSS, and slapped it on top of a Rails app.
It also manages my client proposals. I'm planning on adding time tracking, invoicing, and other features I need to manage client accounts sometime in future (Basecamp integration, LH integration, etc.). I might end up turning it into a SaaS product down the road. Not sure yet.
I hate getting nickeled and dimed by 37Signals, Proposable, Blinksale, and all of the other SaaS products I need to use, and would rather have everything integrated into a single stack.
In an hour: Building an iPhone app in tandem with its Rails backend for a client.