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Hi everyone! 👋
I'm new to Contra and still figuring out how things work here. I'm an Accounting & Finance student starting my freelancing journey, and I'm learning as I go.
🔹 What I work with:
Excel Formulas: VLOOKUP, SUMIF, IF and more, for accounting and finance work
Bank Reconciliation
Financial Reporting
Data Cleanup & Organization
I'd love some help with a few questions:
How do clients actually find you on Contra?
Do you apply to projects, or do clients reach out to you directly?
What should I put on my profile and portfolio to get noticed as a beginner?
What worked (or didn't) for you in your first few weeks?
If you've been on Contra for a while, I'd really appreciate any tips. I'd also love to connect with other freelancers, especially those in accounting, finance, bookkeeping, and data work, and learn from your experiences.
Thanks in advance! 🙏
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Hey Contra!
One more review from my lovely client Sophie 🎉
Happy to work with you!!
Top 1% on Contra. 🎉
A little milestone, but a reminder that showing up and doing good work consistently actually pays off.
If you're just starting out and wondering if it's worth it: it is. Keep going.
Thanks to all my clients and everyone here who's been so supportive.
My Experience with the Contra × Lovable Challenge 🚀
I joined the Contra × Lovable “Built It for Small Business” Challenge.
The idea sounded simple: join the challenge, receive 200 Lovable credits, build a working product, and submit it.
Here is how it actually went for me. 🙂
🎟️ Joined the challenge
Registration completed.
Challenge code received.
I already had a paid Lovable Pro account, but I couldn't find anywhere to redeem the code and receive the promised 200 credits.
🤔 Where do I enter the code?
I checked my account. Nothing.
I contacted support.
📩 Contra.
📩 Lovable.
Lovable replied and asked me to send my challenge code for verification.
I sent it.
⏳
The deadline was getting closer.
The challenge credits still weren't available.
So I stopped waiting and started building with my own paid Lovable credits.
🚀 And then the interesting part began
We built ONLINEDelux Automotive.
Not another booking form.
It is a privacy-first B2B interactive experience for automotive businesses.
A business owner can explore AI video services, keep only what fits, automatically create a private project brief, receive a Project ID and continue directly to a Private Project Review booking.
Explore → Keep → Brief → Book → You’re Booked.
No sales form first.
No unnecessary identity data.
No repeating the brief.
✨ The product worked.
Published. Tested. Booking completed.
That was the best moment of the challenge.
📤 Time to submit
Back to Contra.
Project information — added.
Public Lovable project — added.
Media — uploaded.
Required social post — published.
Social-post link — added.
Finally:
Complete submission.
Done! 🎉
Or… was it?
🤔 How do I know my entry was actually received?
No confirmation email arrived.
I checked my Contra account.
No submission receipt.
No visible entry ID.
No clear “Your submission has been successfully received.”
I checked the challenge page.
Submissions are now closed.
So once again:
📩 Email to Contra: Can you confirm that my submission was received?
📩 Email to Lovable: Can you see whether my project is registered as a challenge entry? Is there an entry ID?
⏳ Waiting again.
And this is where my challenge experience stands today.
Two things came out of this challenge
The first is a real product:
ONLINEDelux Automotive — a working privacy-first journey from exploring a service to a completed booking.
The second is a question:
Why is it so difficult for a participant to see the status of their own challenge journey?
Credits promised → Where are they? 🤔
Support request → Waiting. ⏳
Submission completed → Was it received? 🤔
Entry ID → Where can I find it? 🔎
None of these questions needs a complicated solution.
A participant dashboard showing:
Joined → Credits activated → Entry submitted → Submission ID → Eligible / Under review
would answer almost everything.
For now, I have the most important result:
The product exists. It works. And it is ours. 🚀
Now I'm waiting to find out whether the challenge knows that too. 🙂
Dr. Yulia B. · Founder, Onlinedelux
