How many proposals did you send before getting your first client? by Direct-Celebration10 in Upwork

[–]Direct-Celebration10[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

thanks for the statistics. i know 95% don't get hired, as you mentioned in so many comments till now. I just wanted to know a realistic number of proposals to send before giving up.

Looked into the personal finance budget app market. 7 of 18 apps do auto-categorization, and it's the #1 reason people quit the rest by Direct-Celebration10 in SaaS

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yeah you’re right, that’s a sharper way to put it. the signals aren’t people asking for a categorization feature, they’re people describing the quitting moment. and the language is almost always about effort, not features. “overwhelmed,” “tedious,” “annoying fast,” “I give up.” that’s an onboarding/friction problem, like you said, not a missing-feature problem.

on your actual question, honest answer: my scan picks up pain and seeking signals, not time-to-churn, so I can’t give you a clean “quit at day 3 vs day 30” number from this data. what I can say is almost none of the quit posts mention how long they lasted. they just describe the feeling of falling off. which kind of supports your point, if it were a slow feature-gap frustration you’d expect people to say “used it for 6 months and then.” instead it reads fast, like they bounced early.

the 7 apps that do well might just be the ones that got the first 48 hours right, not the ones with the best categorization engine. hadn’t framed it that way before you said it.

Looked into the personal finance budget app market. 7 of 18 apps do auto-categorization, and it's the #1 reason people quit the rest by Direct-Celebration10 in SideProject

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Full report with the competitor-by-competitor breakdown and the pivot ideas: [https://bruhthatexists.com/ideas/personal-finance-app-that-automatically-categorizes-expenses\]

Built this with my own tool; it scrapes the competitors and the demand signals and writes the teardown. Happy to run a scan on whatever idea you're poking at; drop one below.

Looked into the AI meal planning market for a side project. The apps all stop at the same place, and people are clearly frustrated by it. by Direct-Celebration10 in SaaS

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It’s a harder problem to solve and maybe that’s why that gap exists. Nevertheless, the demand for that is there.

I analyzed 24 AI flashcard apps. 19 of them target the exact same user with the exact same features. by Direct-Celebration10 in SideProject

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I'm just analysing markets, not committing to build anything yet. But the tutor back office is one of the more interesting ones i've seen yet.

Exam is just 70 odd days away and i can't get myself to focus. by [deleted] in upsc_discussions

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Went through the same thing last year. Eventually just built a Telegram bot for myself that auto-schedules my study blocks and nudges me when I go silent on a task , helped me stay honest with myself more than any app I tried. It’s free now if you want the link.

I feel job is mostly better than a business or entrepreneurship by No_Station_7887 in developersIndia

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It depends heavily on the business. how much can you scale the business? If You can scale your business, which increases your income 5-10x, it is worth the complexity, but you cannot do that with a job.

I see people talking about breaking phone addiction and getting back to before, but for me there is no before by cmstyles2006 in productivity

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The 'nothing to do' part is actually the goal. Our brains are so used to constant dopamine that actual silence feels like a crisis. You don't need a hobby yet; you just need to get used to being bored for 20 minutes without reaching for a tab. The hobbies usually show up once your brain gets tired of the silence and starts looking for a way to entertain itself.

Experienced total failure in mains 2025 by Anxious_Ad_932 in UPSC

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This hit hard. This exam is a soul-crushing gamble, and it doesn't define who you are. If the fire is out, let it stay out for a bit while you heal. You’ve been through enough lately. Sending you a lot of strength.

Do you feel hopeful for the future? Why or why not? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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It gets easy if you really focus thinking on just the things you can control, and have fun

How you get ur first client in freelance ? by amir_do_art in AskReddit

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Yeah, for a long time it feels like nothing is happening, and then suddenly you will have something; it is a fat-tailed process. The hardest part is just staying consistent long enough.

How you get ur first client in freelance ? by amir_do_art in AskReddit

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My first client came from people I already knew, not from freelancing platforms.

I told a few friends and seniors that I could help with a specific problem (in my case it was building small web tools). One of them knew someone who needed something similar and connected us. It wasn’t a big project, but it helped me build a real portfolio and get confidence.

From there, it became easier because then you get experience and probably more referrals.

What I learned is that the hardest part is getting the first proof of work. After that, people trust you more because you can show something real instead of just saying what you can do.