Finding work and sending proposals

Work reaches you three ways: the open job board, direct invitations from clients, and orders on services you have published. The board is where you spend effort; the other two are what that effort earns you over time.

Before you can bid

Sending a proposal requires an approved expert account with current identity verification. The interface tells you which one is missing rather than failing silently, and the rule is enforced on the server — so it applies identically on web and mobile.

Choosing what to bid on

A job accepts up to 10 proposals by default and then closes to new ones, so speed matters — but bidding on everything is how experts burn their time. Filter for work you can genuinely price, and read the post for whether the client has thought about it. A post with a named stack, a volume, and a definition of done is worth three vague ones.

• Invitations appear first. A client chose you, so your odds are far better than on an open bid.
• Filter by category, platform, budget, and urgency instead of scrolling — the board is long by design.
• Skip jobs whose budget is below the platform minimum; a bid under it cannot become a contract.

Writing the proposal

Clients read the approach before the price. The proposals that win restate the problem accurately — sometimes correcting the client — then bound the scope and name the number of revision rounds. The ones that lose are a paragraph about the expert.