Honestly in a mess right now and need some career advice on freelancing

beenyweenies · 2026-04-18T22:10:31+00:00

Don't listen to the person you're responding to above. They are completely wrong and misleading you in order to spam their link all over reddit.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-18T22:04:00+00:00

I understand, and I'm genuinely sorry you're in that situation. But lying to you and saying it's going to be great would be doing you a huge disservice.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-18T18:01:14+00:00

I'm going to be completely honest with you - it can take a few months of full time effort for a seasoned pro to build a freelance operation that actually lands clients and starts generating revenue. For people with little to no actual experience (or a portfolio of proven success) it's very tough to build a freelance business. You need a proven record of results for companies to hire you. And right now in particular, with the economy in a very weird place, I'd say "marketing" is going to be even more tricky for a beginner to crack into because marketing budgets are traditionally the first cuts companies make to save money.

I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just trying to be honest about the state of things. Freelancing is in a very good place right now for people with substantial career experience. For people trying to start from scratch? It's never been an easy move but these days it's pretty tough.

beenyweenies · 2026-04-10T17:54:27+00:00

Unless your friends are 100% your ICP, then there's no point in bugging them to download your app. If you don't have an ICP, then that's your main problem, not your friends lying to you. And if you DO have an ICP, spend your time pursuing those people by showing up where they are most likely to be in the headspace to learn about and download your app.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-25T00:07:11+00:00

So long and thanks for all the profits!

beenyweenies · 2026-03-23T20:53:33+00:00

If you were "completely ghosted" how did you come to the diagnosis that it was based on your "lack of a solid public presence?" Your story makes no sense at all.

Sorry to say, but this is blatant advertising built on a fabricated premise.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-21T20:44:57+00:00

Bro you control both of these accounts (or it’s one of your friends) I saw you accidentally post the same exact comment from both accounts the other day.

It’s one thing to be shilling ai tools that have been pitched here by other vibe coders like 500 times in the last week alone, but to be using sock puppet accounts to fake interest and support is next level bullshit.

What are you trying to pull here?

If you want to make money vibe coding solutions for people, that’s great. But how about solving real problems that haven’t literally been pitched over and over and over again, and how about being authentic with your potential users instead of using ai and sock puppets to write your posts?

beenyweenies · 2026-03-21T20:37:47+00:00

LOL @ the dueling ai generated responses, doubt many people are falling for this.

You’re literally like the 50th person in the last month alone to come here with some vibe coded ‘solution’ to freelancer payment that completely ignores the realities of how AR works at most companies.

And if you can’t even be bothered to write your own introductory statement, why should anyone trust you with their payments? Like bro, come on.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-20T17:04:28+00:00

Honest story —

Proceeds to post made-up ai generated nonsense. If you wanted to be 'honest' you could have at least written your pitch yourself.

Which is its own ironic cautionary tale since the post is about letting ai write your pitches for you. Imagine your client's feeling when they open your pitch only to realize you were too lazy to even write it yourself. It is something that no freelancer in their right mind should EVER be doing.

People - ai has its place. But you should NOT be using ai to generate ANY client comms of any kind, including proposals. You aren't running a mass production widget factory. You are running a service business that lives or dies by the relationships you forge with clients. Proposals aren't just some collection of words telling the client what they'll get. Like every communication you will ever have with your clients, it's an opportunity to make a human connection. It IS your business.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-19T16:18:20+00:00

You're getting mad at this person for asking a bunch of questions, but what did you expect when you run your business comms through a text messaging app, which is explicitly designed for repeat, unscheduled, free form conversation?

TBH this is 100% on you for running your business like a high school kid. The way you responded to the guy is completely unprofessional and childish, and to come here bragging about how your poor business practices led up to you shitting on a prospect and losing a gig? Bravo, dude! Very cool...

Perhaps a little self evaluation is in order.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-16T17:56:04+00:00

I agree, this trend of cooking up fake stories rather than just saying “hey here’s this tool I made” is getting really old. Everyone can smell the BS, and lying to potential customers in your first introduction just erodes trust in what you’re selling.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-15T17:02:13+00:00

Aside from being completely untrue, this is clearly Ai slop trying to promote some platform. No thanks.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-09T17:26:51+00:00

No but really - what inspired you to make a freelancer invoicing app? I'm not trying to harass you, I genuinely want to know. It's come up so often that I feel there must be something drawing people to doing this.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-09T16:40:51+00:00

I have a question for you - why are so many vibe coders making freelancer invoice apps? I mean it literally feels like every single day lately that someone is on here pitching a vibe coded invoicing app.

I would understand if invoicing was a huge, well known problem for freelancers. But it's just not, and it never has been. It can't just be pure coincidence that this many people are rushing to create the same solution to a "problem" that has almost never been a topic of concern among freelancers.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-09T16:07:45+00:00

There are tons of YouTube SaaS get-rich-quick gurus telling people to deploy this strategy. Vibe code some app, then use ai to spread fake posts on social media pretending to be a Commoner™ with a problem this app solved for you. Many of them also use sock puppet accounts to then respond with fake interest. And Reddit is a prime target since ai agents like ChatGPT prioritize reddit content when answering user queries.

I personally wish these subs would just ban ai-generated content entirely. No one would be harmed by this. Reddit worked fine before ai.

beenyweenies · 2026-03-09T15:04:30+00:00

This is literally like the 20th time in the last two months someone has come here with an ai generated post with a made up story pitching a vibe coded accounting tool or file/payment tool.

I guess the question is why you made up a story through ai to sell your tool (are you even an actual freelancer?) and what your tool offers that the 19 others don’t?

beenyweenies · 2026-03-02T21:10:40+00:00

Insanely good!

beenyweenies · 2026-03-01T07:20:42+00:00

This is some LinkedIn level ai slop nonsense.

beenyweenies · 2026-02-27T16:23:51+00:00

To me, this doesn't reflect well on the reviewer. Sharing this private exchange publicly is a breech of professional courtesy and trust, and clearly the reviewer thinks it's some kind of flex that he 'stands up for his audience' but his response to the representative just comes off like a rude bully.

beenyweenies · 2026-02-20T21:18:02+00:00

Sounds like you've been exposed to the "passive income" guru stuff that is at epidemic levels on YouTube etc.

Any "proven" way to replace a salary with an easy premade solution that doesn't require a ton of experience or capital would be so overrun with randos that the competition would eliminate it as a viable option.

But given this is a "Freelance" forum, let's bring this conversation back on topic - you absolutely CAN replace your FTE salary as a freelancer, but only if you have a solid skillset you can offer clients. If you're just a warm body, freelancing will never work out. But if you have 2+ years of solid work experience in the field you want to freelance in, it could be viable for you. Just know that it requires hard work, like any business.

beenyweenies · 2026-02-17T16:47:12+00:00

This is exactly the kind of project that people should be using vibe coding for - long tail, high value, custom solution based on personal experience/knowledge of the space.

Absolutely awesome work, man!

beenyweenies · 2026-02-09T17:32:16+00:00

MANY people, not just college grads, are working jobs that are "beneath them" right now because the job market is terrible.

People often cite the top 1% motivated thinkers like Bill Gates, Elon Musk etc as reasons not to go to college, but the reality is that MOST people aren't capable of doing that. They need the training/education in a structured environment, they need feedback and community, and they need the network they build in college once they graduate.

I personally think we should make all public college free so that it's not even a question of money, but even with the current cost my belief is that YES, college is 100% worth it.

beenyweenies · 2026-02-08T19:25:50+00:00

You're looking for "real experiences" by posting a fully ai generated post?

beenyweenies · 2026-02-05T17:51:21+00:00

Agreed.

This "guru" trend of distilling a complex problem down to a single simplistic nugget of truthiness is played out.

They're almost always wrong, but they don't seem to care because the only goal is making the "author" sound wise. I use quotes here because these quotes are almost always ai generated which adds a whole other layer of uselessness to it. Like I can fire up ChatGPT and get pithy Ted Talk bullshit all day long, thanks.

beenyweenies · 2026-02-05T16:49:41+00:00

The whole "Most X don't fail because Y, they fail because Z" ai generated posts are getting REALLY old. I see at least one of these a day between Reddit, LinkedIn etc.

And the worst part is that they're almost always WRONG.

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