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Your "Hire Me" button is a spam magnet. Let's fix it.
As an independent, your email is your lifeline. It's on your portfolio, your Contra profile, your socials. You need clients to find you.
But for every real lead, you get 10 spammers, 5 "SEO experts," and 3 phishing attempts disguised as overdue invoices.
I did the math. I was wasting ~70 hours a year just deleting junk. That’s two full billable weeks lost. If your rate is $100/hr, that's $7,000 flushed down the drain annually.
We built Sentry to stop the bleeding.
🛡️ Sentry is an AI Shield for legal & creative pros. It acts as a secure layer between your public contact info and your real inbox.
Interested to check out? More in the first comment!
How it helps independents:
Stop Context Switching: AI filters out the noise before it hits your inbox. You only see real opportunities.
Burnable Aliases: Create unique emails for specific platforms (e.g., contra.leads@your-alias.com ). If one gets spammed, you can kill it...
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Still exploring on how to get clients on contra after having a successful freelance career on upwork. If you’re looking for a Full stack developer who gets the job done, you know where to find me.
Best of luck 🤞
Another quick project ⚡️ but with a slightly different approach.
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We were building a landing funnel, but instead of starting from the lead magnet, we started from the end.
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The page was used for ads, with a form to see if the program fits the user – and if the user fits the program.
Only after that, we built the checklist lead magnet funnel to bring cold traffic and warm it up before sending people to the course page.
Projects like this are always fun because it’s not just design – it’s real marketing logic, testing, and iteration 🚀
I needed a better way to find and manage freelance clients. Nothing out there fit, so I built my own.
It tracks every lead, every proposal, every follow-up. Then I added an AI assistant that searches job boards for me, finds the ones that match what I do, and puts them in my queue.
It runs 24/7 and costs nothing. I open it in the morning and the opportunities are already there.
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