I’ve been on contra for quite a while now, but for some reason I haven’t been able to land a gig or get past a certain stage. I would love if anyone could share their experiences, it would be greatly appreciated in my freelancing journey ✨
Evolving a brand with almost 30 years of history is the hard version of brand work. You have to keep what people already trust while making it feel current. Nice job balancing both.
Love that a client found you on Behance and it turned into a B2B fintech landing page. Jumping on a discovery call right away probably made all the difference.
Built myself a little command center for my freelance work this week. It’s called Bench.
Contra handles the contracts and payments, but my day-to-day was scattered across Contra chats, Gmail, my calendar, Notion, and a notes app. So I pulled it all into one place:
• A dashboard showing what needs me today: unread messages, overdue tasks, past-due invoices, leads that have gone quiet
• Each project gets its own page with scope, deliveries, tasks, links, and the full message thread from Contra and email
• A pipeline for leads, including a “Ghosted” column, because we’ve all been there
• A time tracker for the hourly stuff
• It syncs with my Contra projects and invoices every morning
Curious how other freelancers here keep track of everything. Spreadsheets? Notion? Pure chaos?