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Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
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Contra has been wonderful to use. However, adding an optional feature that allows clients to provide feedback when rejecting a proposal would be extremely valuable. This would offer actionable insights, helping freelancers understand areas for improvement and ultimately benefiting the entire community.
Hey Contra Community! I'm Thi, a Creative Director and UX/UI Designer based in Brazil with over a decade of experience working with clients across the US, Latin America, and beyond.
I've built brands from zero, designed dashboards and SaaS interfaces, led marketing strategy for startups in regulated industries, and taught branding and UX at university level. My work lives at the intersection of strategy and craft - I care as much about why something looks the way it does as how it looks.
Currently available for UX/UI, brand identity, and creative direction projects. If you're building something and need a designer who thinks like a strategist, let's talk.
Welcome to the community, Thiago! 🙌
🚨 I'm making the full switch from Upwork to Contra — and honestly? I already get why everyone says it hits different.
Fellow copywriters and freelancers, be real with me for a second.
How many of you are just... tired? Tired of platforms skimming big cuts off the top, burying your proposals under a hundred others, and sending you clients who treat great writing like it's worth five bucks and a thank-you?
I lived in that loop longer than I should have. Endless revision rounds. Rates that kept sliding lower. Watching generic AI output land jobs that genuinely deserved real human persuasion behind them.
So I stopped waiting and went all-in on Contra.
No platform fees eating into my income. Creative clients who actually give a damn. A community that talks about craft — not just output volume.
I'm still early in this. No massive wins to shout about yet. But the difference in the quality of conversations alone? Night and day. The founders showing up here are a completely different breed.
Here's what I'm focusing on right now to build real momentum — take whatever's useful:
1. Value posts over spray-and-pray proposals. One genuinely helpful post sparks better conversations than 50 applications nobody opens.
2. My profile is my sales page — and I'm treating it like one. Clear services, strong samples, and a bio that actually sounds like a person wrote it. Contra's discovery feed rewards authenticity. Generic doesn't cut it here.
3. Leaning hard into warm, trust-building, conversational copy. Because that's still the one thing that consistently beats pure AI in 2026 — and clients are starting to feel that gap more than ever. They don't just need words on a page. They need copy that makes someone feel something and then do something.
Whether you're based in Dubai like me or freelancing from a coffee shop on the other side of the world — Contra feels like it actually levels the playing field, as long as you show up with intention and keep showing up.
Here's the honest 2026 take: the copywriters winning right now aren't fighting AI. They're using it as a tool while bringing the warm, persuasive, results-driven voice that no model has fully figured out yet — and probably won't for a while.
What's one thing you're changing or doubling down on in your freelance work this year? Drop it in the comments 👇 — and tag a copywriter or freelancer who needs to be in this conversation.
Let's make #freelancerlife actually useful for people. #freelancerlife #copywriting #copywriter #Contra #freelancecopywriter #copywritingtips
Excellent insights and Welcome to Contra! From my experience, I got on Contra 10 months ago and there is no going back. All the best!
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