Hey guys, I'm looking for a professional designer to create a brand book for my brand, I'm dealing in the FMCG sector and want to position my brand in the premium segment so let me know if anybody wants to work with me as a freelancer we'll discuss the payments.
Send DM with your details and technical knowledge.
Get a chance to work with Lead engineers with 10+ Y.O.E.
This will be unpaid at the moment. With proven performance over the time chances of pay is there.
I recently finished courses on Google Ads and Meta Ads and I’m now trying to get my first real clients.
I created a Fiverr gig but barely get any impressions/clicks. I also don’t have Upwork Connects right now.
For those who started from scratch, how did you get your first clients? Is cold outreach, Reddit, LinkedIn, other marketplaces, or something else more effective?
Any practical advice would be really appreciated!
The last few months I found it annoying finding the right AI training/annotating jobs with a decent acceptance rate. Long story short, I made my own website that only lists legit listings with good acceptance rates. Any feedback would be appreciated!: https://aiannotationjobs.com
Hey,
i'm 21 F, urgently looking for a job. willing to do content writing, copywriting, virtual assistant, web researcher, data entry & daily admin tasks ( NOT LOOKING FOR EASY MONEY)
Completed my secondary and senior secondary (PCM) with +90%. currently pursuing BA (pol sci) and preparing for UPSC.
STEP UP- got good quality internet 24/7, 2 laptops, tab and an iphone.
please, let me know if any roles are there or you can connect me with someone who's looking? Maybe above mentioned roles or any other roles- open to anything decent that can be done from my room.
thankyou!
I am from tier 3 collage .. what I do to start earning I am currently 2nd year .. i want or start freelancing or focus on job roles what I do I am very confused.....
Any best platform for beginners to start…..
für eine Freelancer AI-Plattform in der der Auftraggeber sein Projektvorhaben im Chat formuliert und dann direkt per Booking-Link mit dem Freelancer in Kontakt tritt.
Momentan ist die Plattform kostenfrei, mit geringer Konkurrenz (71 Freelancer on board) - alles was ich brauche ist eure Fachrichtung, Skills und Booking Link.
I have been freelancing in my semi-niche field for 12 years now and have built up a good business/very solid income.
A lot of my clients are large to very large institutions, which means that different parts of the organisation can operate independently of each other from a budget perspective. I am currently doing a long project (12 months duration) for one such organisation, and another department in the same organisation got in touch to ask for a proposal for a project in their area.
I provided them with a proposal, with pricing adjusted (discounted) on the basis that I have already learned the organisational environment and norms, so I would have a head start. Nonetheless, they declined, stating the proposal was above their budget. Fair enough, that happens!
My dilemma is that they have come back with a different scope and asked me to requote on that basis, but I don't really want to. In the time since doing their first proposal (the one they rejected), I have had another substantial proposal accepted by another client, and timing will be an issue. Moreover, I'm just not excited by the new brief / scope - it's not hitting the things I most enjoy about my work and has added in things I don't usually do (think - if my usual offering is creating flower arrangements, they are now asking for watering plants instead). I also get a strong read that they are looking for a price below my floor of what I usually take on (I have had bad experiences with low price jobs pretty consistently, and now heavily preference longer higher-value projects).
Normally this would be easy - I would just say thank you but no, and move on - but I'm wondering if anyone has encountered the particular trickiness of turning down work for one part of an organisation while still working for another. I can't afford to create awkwardness or bad blood with my long-term project.
Hello guys, it has been almost 5 months now looking for a job here online and what I can say, things aren't easy at all. I have tried a couple of tech companies, fintechs, saccos, Jack,...name them all. Unfortunately most of them either allow hybrid workers or full day office workers. Let's not even talk about normal clients here an there. With this AI bubble thing most of them think that you can build a whole system within a week using AI hence they be talking of paying pennies (like 1/3 of what one should be paid). For those that are landing clients in this era, what is that you are doing that we aren't doing (tech buddies).
Hello everyone I’m a 27/M working in the banking industry as a financial analyst. Honestly this is my first “big boy” job as I was previously paying my way through grad school and got my MBA. I felt proud.
During those years I worked as servers/barback/medical field/doordash/etc. It was a grind to say the least and I’m glad I do not have to do that. So I landed a mid level role at a regional bank and it pays 78,500/yr plus I get a discretionary bonus which pays at 15% base so total comp is a little over $90k. Not bad.
But truth be told, the work is dead ass easy. I wish we could work from home and it’s totally applicable to do so but management as “separation anxiety” and we have to come into office. And as my first real job, I don’t have any leverage to really complain.
Then recently I had a one on one with my manager and suddenly he said something that struck a revelation in me. He said:
“We want to get our money’s worth out of you and we expect you to do x,y, and z…”
Some reason, that phrase “get our moneys worth out of you struck, not that I think my manager is a jerk in fact he’s quite flexible and I like the guy actually.
But like newtons law every action has an opposite and equal reaction, I also thought, “then I want to get my monies worth as well.”
So it’s got me thinking 🤔 “with this easy of a work load, it wouldn’t be so difficult to get another job/contract on the side and generate additional money income would it?”
I have my MBA, I am a CSM (scrum), and PMP approved my application and all I need to do is take the damn test which I am holding off right now.
So guys I need help, which roles/contract positions do you think would best suit to get MY MONIES worth?
For my job, I mostly work with excel, plan budgets, create general ledgers, do variance/regression analysis, analyze financial trends/patterns/anamolies/etc, create simple dashboards and visuals in powerBi for the executives. The role itself is a financial systems analyst since we are actually a fin-tech company merged with data and FP&A (financial planning and analysis).
So I’m a little stuck, the drive is in me, but I needs some guidance and direction thx🙏,
Shalom!
Hey everyone! I'm a 20 year old student from India trying to start freelancing and eventually build a reliable income while I'm in college.
The weird part is that I have a bunch of skills, writing, scriptwriting, video editing, photography, filmmaking, psychology, some data analytics, etc.
but almost nothing to show for them professionally.
No clients. No portfolio. No certificates.
Just skills I've developed on my own.
I'm currently leaning toward writing/scriptwriting and short-form video editing, and I'm planning to spend the next few weeks building actual samples/spec work and then pitching to creators, businesses, agencies, etc.
I'd love to hear from people who actually started from zero:
How did you choose your first skill?
How did you build your first portfolio?
Where did your first client come from?
How long did it take?
What did you earn initially?
What mistakes did you make?
What would you do differently if you started today?
I'm not looking for a get rich quick scheme. I just want to understand the realistic path from:
“I have a skill” → “I can prove it” → “someone pays me for it.”
Especially interested in experiences from writers, editors, designers, content creators, or other creative freelancers.
Brutal honesty is welcome. 😭
I am building a React based loan tracking app that needs to store customers, loans, installments, and payment history for several years.
The application is for personal purpose
Is a free tier database like Supabase/PostgreSQL or Firebase enough for this?
Any recommendations or real world experience?
Thanks!
Hey All!
Had a very successful year through UpWork, hoping to graduate to Toptal.
I have the live coding session next week and have heard it’s brutal.
Has anyone taken the exam recently, and if so, any words of advice that would set me up for success/what to expect?
I hear many great things about Toptal, so I really want to nail this!
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I have just started my own startup and a potential first business client has given me a high-level requirement for a full-featured B2B CRM.
The scope includes leads, contacts, accounts, opportunities, Kanban pipelines, activities/tasks, dashboards, reporting, RBAC, custom fields, notifications, search, and fairly deep AI features like lead scoring, deal insights, summaries, follow-up generation and an AI CRM assistant.
They also want proper architecture, database design, APIs, scalability, documentation, etc. Basically, they're describing a B2B sales operating system, not a simple CRUD app.
I'm confused about how to quote something this large.
A few things I'd love advice on:
How would you estimate/price a project like this?
Would you give one fixed price or break it into phases?
What timeline would be realistic?
If I need to hire a developer, how should I factor that into the quote?
What should I make absolutely clear in the contract/SOW?
What are the common scope-creep traps with projects like this?
Should AI/integrations/hosting/maintenance be priced separately?
I'm fairly early in doing projects of this scale, so I'd really appreciate advice from people who have actually delivered large custom SaaS/CRM projects.
What would you do if you were in my position?
my project is related to pets website
Hello marketing gurus!
I was recently laid off from a job that I loved in Digital Strategy in a mid-size company. I’m energized by the idea of leaving Big Corporate and dabbling in entrepreneurship.
I’m looking to freelance as a part-time marketing leader for multiple start ups in the U.S. and U.K.
This idea came about after an interesting conversation I had with a start up founder who was seeking marketing advice which turned into me sending him a proposal with services that I could offer to his company. Unfortunately nothing came out of it but now I at least have a template for future proposals.
I don’t personally know any marketers who switched from corporate to freelancing but hoping to find at least one here!
If you’ve successfully pivoted to freelancing, please share your story and maybe we can chat on the side 😁
I've been noticing a trend lately that I find a little weird.
Someone builds a workflow like:
Google Sheets → n8n → ChatGPT → Gmail
…and suddenly it's called "AI automation."
I'm not saying tools like n8n, Make, Zapier, etc. are bad. They're actually useful. But I think we're sometimes learning the tool before learning the actual concept of automation.
Take something simple like a bulk email system.
If the requirement is:
- Read 10,000 users
- Process them in batches
- Personalize the email
- Call an email API
- Handle rate limits
- Retry failures
- Log the results
That's not necessarily an "AI automation" problem.
As a developer, I'd first understand the process and build/automate the core logic with code and APIs. Maybe it's a few hundred lines of code, maybe less depending on the requirements.
Then I'd ask:
Would n8n/Make/Zapier make this easier to maintain, deploy, monitor, or hand over to a non-developer?
If yes, use it.
But I don't think the right approach is:
«"Everyone is using n8n, so I should learn n8n and connect a few apps."»
I think the order should be:
Understand the manual process → understand the APIs → automate with code → identify bottlenecks → then choose the right automation tool.
And there's an even bigger distinction:
Automation ≠ AI automation.
A workflow like:
"Trigger → API → transform data → API → database"
is automation.
Something like:
"Trigger → retrieve context → LLM analyzes/classifies → make a decision → execute action → verify result"
is much closer to AI automation.
The AI should actually be doing something that requires reasoning, classification, extraction, generation, or decision-making.
Otherwise, we're just putting an LLM in the middle of a workflow because "AI automation" is the current buzzword.
Maybe I'm looking at this too much from a developer perspective, though.
Do you think people should learn automation concepts/code first and then use tools like n8n, or are these platforms actually the better starting point?
We are hiring a GenAI + Frontend Intern at Empulse Labs.
We build custom software and AI systems for SMBs, and you’ll work directly on real client/product work rather than just internal experiments.
What you’ll work on:
What I’m looking for:
Details:
If you're interested, comment below and I'll DM you.
Hi everyone, I’m new here and I’m starting my journey into remote work. I’m interested in building skills in virtual assistance, AI-related work, productivity tools, and possibly project management skills.
I’m currently learning and trying to understand which skills are most valuable in today’s remote job market. For those who are already working online, what skills helped you get your first client or project?
I’d really appreciate any advice, recommended platforms, lessons you’ve learned, or mistakes beginners should avoid.
Looking forward to learning from this community. Thank you!🫶🏼