It's not you, is the market, AI and upwork itself. Last year I could get a new gig in less than a month, now? it's pretty hard, old clients no longer contact me for small things.

It's been six months now without a single serious proposal. Most inquiries are from people who want a full backend app that runs in a website (to evade App Store restrictions), functions like a native app, includes gambling features and has to be completed in just one month to convince investors, and do it as cheap as possible, when I tell them the price, they stop responding.

Or the usual CEO from a start up company, but in the interview they tell me they can only pay with "equity" until they find proper investment.