a close friend lost $2,000 because he signed a contract he didn't fully understand. the terms were buried in legal jargon... designed to confuse, not inform.
and it's not even close to rare. professionals everywhere are handing over their rights to people who know exactly how to hide bad clauses in plain sight.
that's why i built Termscan.
upload any contract or terms of service. the AI reads it like a lawyer and explains it like a friend. plain language.
it flags what actually matters: liability, IP ownership, auto-renewals, termination terms... the stuff that costs you later.
Termscan drafts a negotiation email for you. professional, specific, ready to send.
the biggest losses come from deals you didn't read.
Landing page design for Lumo — banking for freelance life
Banks sell control — dashboards, charts, a card floating at fifteen degrees. Freelancers don't want control over their money. They want to stop thinking about it in the gap between sending an invoice and the money landing.
That gap is what the page is built on. The product sits in a meadow instead of on a dark grid, because the promise isn't "manage your finances better" — it's "we handle the part that keeps you up." And the strongest line on the page isn't a feature: no waiting for Monday. Freelancers don't lose weekends to fees. They lose them to timing.
The proof follows the same rule. One freelancer, one number — 4% lost on every international payment. A percentage someone can check against their own account beats any adjective.
Been freelancing on Contra and building a tool for freelancers at the same time lol.
It's called ProposalForge. You give it a client brief and your rate and it drafts the proposal, and I use it on my own drafts too.
It's live now and free to try (3 proposals, no card). The video shows a free checker I made along the way that marks the phrases that make a proposal sound like ChatGPT. No sign-in: proposalforge.site/check
I'm trying to see where people actually get stuck. What part of writing a proposal takes you the longest? The opening, scoping and pricing, or just getting started?