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Built a freelance marketplace where talent is judged on proven work — not bios. It's called Proven.
The whole premise is an inversion of how hiring usually works:Â freelancers never write their own bio.
Instead, they upload projects they've actually delivered — a short description and a screenshot. An AI engine reads that evidence and builds a verified capability profile from it: a generated headline, a factual capability summary, extracted skills, and a proof score derived entirely from delivered work. Nothing self-reported, nothing salesy.
And companies don't scroll through endless profiles. They describe what they need in plain language, and the platform interprets the brief, then surfaces the freelancers who have already proven they can build it — each match ranked with a feasibility score and a reasoned justification that cites the freelancer's real projects.
The features so far:
My Projects — upload delivered work; each project gets auto-analyzed (summary, capabilities, tech, complexity, domain).
Generated profile — one click synthesizes everything into a verified, evidence-first profile.
Post a Brief — write what you need; the AI structures it into required capabilities, domain, and constraints.
Match Results — ranked, justified matches with fit scores.
Browse Talent — a directory of profiles, every card built from delivered projects, no self-written bios.
The part I love most: every claim on the platform traces back to real evidence. The verified-green accent only ever shows up around things that have actually been proven.
The aesthetic is editorial and credible on purpose — Fraunces serif headlines, a warm off-white canvas — the look of evidence, not advertising.
Try it yourself 👇
• 8h
Tim le boss final de Bubble ! Merci pour tout ce que tu m'as appris ! 🙌
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Thank you Cedric!!
• 11h
Wow so nice! Its like a freelancer platform but you see the projects of each freelance. I love the idea
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Thanks for you comment!
this is such a great idea!
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Thanks for you comment!
• 5h
Looks great, Tim! 🙌
Wow would like to use that app for my recruitment
Great idea
• 39m
I love your concept, its so hard to choose a Freelancer just seeing the picture and Daily rate. So important to preview the projects of each one before making a choice
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To the AI creatives:
I remember when AI became a sensation a few years ago. Everyone was amazed by the realistic quality and the infinite possibilities for creation. It was new, exciting, fun—but also intimidating.
Fast-forward to today. Even though its popularity has grown and the technology has improved significantly, I've realized that many people who are not experienced with these tools have developed certain expectations about them.
AI = Fast = High Quality = Cheap
No.
Yes, tools like Nano Banana, Kling, and Seedance can produce impressive results, but don't forget that behind those results is a person sitting at a computer, iterating over and over and over again until they find that "perfect" final image.
I've had bad experiences with clients who think that just because I'm using AI, I should charge less.
"You use AI. You can do it in 20 minutes. Why are you charging so much?"
Well, what about the credits? What about post-production in Photoshop and Lightroom when needed? What about the constant back-and-forth to match branding guidelines and client feedback?
Those minutes and hours count too—not just the speed of Higgsfield, Kling, or ComfyUI.
And what about our hardware? Our storage drives? Our electricity costs? Our subscriptions?
Know your value.
Just because you're using AI doesn't mean you're an emotionless robot working nonstop, generating endless iterations for cheap dollars.
Take your time. Trust your process. Don't fall for the "it's instant and effortless" narrative that many content creators promote—or that some clients expect.
Plan your work. Define your goals. Sometimes a single image can take hours to get right.
If a client thinks that because something is generated quickly it should automatically be cheap, the answer is still:
No.
Know your value. Have a detailed understanding of how much you spend on credits, software, hardware, post-production, and revisions.
Clients are paying for results, experience, taste, creative direction, problem-solving, and the countless hours you've invested in mastering these tools—not just for the seconds it takes an AI model to render an image.
Peace.
Love this!
The Brief Case
Every creative freelancer knows the spiral: How do I price this? Am I charging enough? What even is a profit margin? Pricing is one of the biggest bottlenecks in a freelancer's business — and it shouldn't be.
The Brief Case is a 3-step tool built entirely in Figma Make that takes a designer from zero to a client-ready proposal in under 5 minutes.
Step 1 — Know your number
An hourly rate calculator built on your real financial data: personal expenses, business costs, desired salary, and billable hours. No more guessing.
Step 2 — Build your project
A brief generator that structures your scope: deliverables, revision rounds, rush fees, contractor costs, installments, and timeline — all feeding into your pricing automatically.
Step 3 — Send with confidence
A clean, personalized, client-facing proposal with an interactive timeline and payment schedule built in. Profit margin stays private. Only the right numbers reach the client.
Workflow:
Built using Figma Make with iterative prompting, design system styles pulled from an existing Figma file, and a multi-step UI flow connecting all three stages.
Link to prototype: https://www.figma.com/make/jtTrwFYRlBkXln1IUzdMHo/Proposal-Generator?fullscreen=1&t=tIiRVlNWHjwjHJER-1&code-node-id=0-9
Pricing should be empowering. Not vomit-inducing.
Cool
I'm back taking client work again; I missed working with people.
Quick question for freelancers and agency owners:
How do you find clients these days?
What's working best for you right now?
local network, linkedin and dribbble for me have worked the best so far. hopefully some inbound starts hapenning here as well 🤞
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