We earned $50k+ on UpWork, but spent 100h+ to get those gigs - until today

My co-founder and I spent hundreds of hours on UpWork:

• First, build an awesome profile (at least you think it is, but then you iterate 1000 times)

• Then, search for keywords (yeah, some of them are pretty bad, but after 20h you get which ones work)

• Now, time for filtering the bad posts, and the fake ones, and then finally you get a decent one - but it has 30 applicants already.

Does this sound familiar?

UpWork and others do a bad job at filtering and matching, so we scratched our own itch and built gigsent.com

Our plan is screen, curate and help in the application. We only did the first two, so next is:

• Incorporate more sources (freelancer(.)com, reddit, etc.)

• Generate personalized application answers (still talking to users on how to best do this)

We are still in early stages so feedback is super appreciated.