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I wasn't losing freelance projects because I was a bad developer.

I was losing because I was always late.

I'd find a great opportunity, spend 30 minutes researching the client, write a thoughtful proposal...

only to realize 40 other freelancers had already applied.

That happened over and over again.

At some point I asked myself:

Why are we spending so much time searching for opportunities instead of actually doing the work we're good at?

I looked at the tools available.

Some help write proposals.

Some track clients.

Some organize your pipeline.

But I couldn't find one that answered the question I cared about most:

Which opportunity should I spend the next hour on?

So I started building one.

Not another job board.

Not another AI proposal generator.

Something that continuously discovers opportunities, researches them, scores them, explains why they're worth pursuing, and helps me focus only on the highest-value ones.

Building it has been much harder than I expected.

I thought AI would be the difficult part.

It wasn't.

The hardest challenge has been filtering thousands of opportunities, removing noise, combining data from different sources, and ranking them in a way that's actually useful.

I've already deleted features I thought were essential because they didn't solve the real problem.

The more I build, the more I realize this isn't about writing better proposals.

It's about making better decisions.

I'm still building.

Still learning.

Still changing my mind almost every week.

But that's exactly why I'm sharing the journey publicly.

If you're a freelancer, founder, or indie hacker...

What's the most frustrating part of finding new clients today?

I'd genuinely like to hear your experience.

on July 4, 2026