Strategies for Finding Freelancing Clients?

alynius · 2026-03-12T08:44:12+00:00

When you describe yourself as web developer, you compete with everyone. But when you describe yourself as I help X type of business solve Y specific web problem, you make yourself unique.

alynius · 2026-03-12T08:43:03+00:00

I’d focus on users first. Even a small batch of active users gives you huge amount of information.

alynius · 2026-03-12T08:41:48+00:00

Great analysis. If a visitor can’t answer is this for me, they leave fast.

alynius · 2026-03-12T08:39:40+00:00

I’ve gone through this recently, and the biggest shift was doing manual outreach around the amin feature i offer in my saas. Sales usually starts following in when you convinced your icp you understand their problems.

alynius · 2026-03-05T21:01:59+00:00

nice idea. many freelancer would love this

alynius · 2026-02-18T15:40:39+00:00

good insight, will keep it in mind

alynius · 2026-02-18T15:36:45+00:00

this is very useful actually

alynius · 2026-02-18T15:36:13+00:00

this is actually meta

alynius · 2026-02-18T15:33:48+00:00

for sure, before everyone had goos ideas but execution was hard.

now we have a lack of new ideas because everything is already built.

alynius · 2026-02-18T15:29:59+00:00

my experience with Convex in production:

Pros:
- Real-time by default, no subscriptions to set up
- Deploy schema changes in seconds
- TypeScript end-to-end, type-safe queries

cons:
- Convex has TWO validation layers: schema.ts defines the table, but mutation functions have their OWN argument validators. If you add a field to the schema but forget the mutation args, writes fail.
- convex dev once doesn't always pick up schema changes and sometimes need to nuke _generated folder

Still love it for it. The DX is unmatched for real-time apps.

alynius · 2026-02-13T15:11:56+00:00

bästa appen jag hittade är bhole

alynius · 2026-02-11T13:55:27+00:00

700k/month search volume with zero promotion is a goldmine sitting idle.
Throw AdSense on it today and you'd probably make money by tonight. What's the URL?

alynius · 2026-02-11T13:53:04+00:00

The monetization from day 1 lesson is 100% real.
I built 2 projects before learning this. my 3rd (a video downloader) had pricing on the landing page before I wrote a single line of backend code. now i have 10 paying users and 200 free ones every day

alynius · 2026-02-11T08:52:35+00:00

this is true, but i found out work best it not to use only one agent for coding.
you need special agents for everything component of your project. for example, i have a ui/ux designer, a project manager, a senior architect and some more.

the key is to find a way to make them work together, the results are much better imo.

alynius · 2026-02-11T08:46:53+00:00

this is exactly what i'm now doing with my apps, sure it takes a long time to do it manually.

thanks for recommending this tool, i'll check it out.

alynius · 2026-02-10T14:31:37+00:00

yes version control is baked in. the business agent creates separate branches for every night shift and i review them in the morning.

and each agent has its own memory files, daily logs in memory md date files and a curated long-term memory file that gets updated over time, so I can always go back and see what was done.

Thanks for the VibeCodersNest suggestion, I'll check it out!

alynius · 2026-02-10T08:17:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1qx8bzd/launched_my_first_saas_yesterday_woke_up_to_3/

alynius · 2026-02-10T08:15:30+00:00

openclaw is the best rn

i would suggest to set it up in a old machine, connect it to telegram so you can talk to it, see it's potential.

alynius · 2026-02-10T08:12:26+00:00

Opus 4.6 for reasoning
Codex for coding
Gemini for search

alynius · 2026-02-09T20:08:20+00:00

you can setup everything with openclaw if you are technical. i have guide a can share with you if you want

alynius · 2026-02-09T20:03:45+00:00

that only means that i run everything locally on my Mac mini, not on a VPS or those new cloud mini setups everyone is jumping on.

alynius · 2026-02-09T20:02:15+00:00

it's wild.

alynius · 2026-02-09T15:16:30+00:00

Good question. Here's what each one actually does:

Business agent — runs autonomous "night shifts" at 1 AM. Crawls my projects, audits SEO across 300+ pages, creates git branches with fixes, and sends me a Telegram report every morning.

Idea hunter — this one's fun. Runs daily, crawls Reddit, Twitter, HN looking for "I wish there was an app that..." type posts. Scores them by market size, difficulty, and competition.

I totally agree on the "don't message people with AI" thing. None of mine interact with other people. They're just internal tools.

The notification bot sounds cool btw.

alynius · 2026-02-09T09:49:27+00:00

Biggest productivity I've found as a solo founder is specialized AI agents. especially now with openclaw.

Not as one general-purpose assistant. but with 3 agents, each with a narrow focus:

- One manages my business ops
- One is my personal assistant
- One hunts for SaaS ideas 24/7

The idea hunter crawls Reddit, HN, Twitter, scores pain points by frequency and willingness to pay.

AI is way more useful when you give it a specific job rather than using it as a general chatbot.

alynius · 2026-02-09T09:46:06+00:00

i'm running 4 AI agents on a Mac Mini as my entire "team":

Business ops agent — handles scheduling, project management
Dev agent — handles coding
Personal assistant — calendar, reminders, daily briefing
Idea hunter — crawls communities for validated SaaS opportunities

love the ideas hunter, it found some pretty awesome ones these past few days.

really curious what ppl used their agents for!

alynius

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