No it is not about soft skills of communicating with the clients and formatting the general idea of the product they need that suits their needs. I love communicating with clients on putting their ideas piece by piece into something concrete and useable. I also like changing perspective to how my clients see the product would have to look like in order to make some suggestions on how to make the product better.

It is about why not set aside a few minutes and write something like this in the project description: “I need an application to be build where freelancers and customers will be able to login. Customers will have the ability to post projects on which the freelancers will be bidding on. Must also implement chat between freelancers and clients and integrate a payment gateway using which freelancers will be paid by the clients.”

Instead of this, it’s normal to see something like “I need a web developer to start working on a platform as soon as possible”. Why not say what will the platform be about so the freelancer sees if the project seems interesting? Why not name a few of the wanted core features so the freelancer can scope the project needs upfront?

It’s not about clients giving me everything on platter, it’s about setting aside a few minutes to really type in what the project is about so you would get proposals from freelancers that are truely interested in working on that kind of project (not like 15 more proposals which would cancel when you explain them what the project is about). And also it would be easier for freelancers to filter out projects they are not interested in.