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Hi! I’m looking for someone who can work as a Remote Assistant. The job is very simple and fully remote, so you can work from home using your computer or phone.
You only need basic English, basic computer skills, a stable internet connection, and a responsible attitude. The working hours are flexible.
If you are interested, please send me a message to maciejkolber95@outlook.com.
I've been sending a lot of outreach messages lately as part of my job search, and pretty quickly ran into the same wall every time.
Writing a good, personalized message was never the problem. The problem was everything before it: finding the right contact, pulling context on the role or company, checking if I'd already reached out, then logging it somewhere so I wouldn't lose track.
There was a lot of repetitive work standing between me and writing the message itself.
So I started building a small dashboard (React, Vite, deployed on Vercel) to handle the deterministic stuff. It looks up contacts, pulls the context I need, and tracks everything in Notion automatically. I pretty much just do the writing.
Still early and still just for me, but it's already saved a chunk of time I used to burn on busywork instead of actually reaching out to people.
#ProductDesign #BuildInPublic #JobSearch
Building your own dashboard to kill the repetitive lookup work instead of just grinding through it manually says a lot. Did you set out planning to build something, or did the busywork hit a point where vibe-coding a fix felt faster than doing the research by hand one more time?
employment pays for one label. independence pays for finished things.
that's the actual "generalist problem" and it has less to do with skills than everyone thinks.
@lukas margerie quit his agency job and filmed himself learning in public every single day. three months later clients were finding him, and one of those threads turned into the MagicPath role. his skills didn't change in those three months. you could suddenly watch them.
range you can't watch reads like a longer resume. range you can watch reads like a track record.
we got into all of it on UnContrad, how to package being good at many things so buyers read it as an asset. episode's live, link below.
Watch the full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR1FSmULvsM