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Just earned my Top Rated badge on Upwork!! 🚀 🎉 🎉 🎉
It took consistent delivery, strong client relationships, and a lot of late nights, but it feels good to hit this one.
If you're building on Upwork too, happy to share what worked for me.
If you have some projects in mind - feel free to hit me on Contra or Upwork!🙌
https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01995166882665eabe
thank you so much Samuel!!😊
Love your work!!
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Which platform has brought you better opportunities as a freelancer? 👀
🅰️ Contra
🅱️ Upwork
Vote below and share why in the comments! 👇
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Big no for upwork too much crowded! if you are an old player you might get projects there, New on contra looking forward to see whats come up!🙌
Just crossed $50,000 earned 🎉
When I joined Contra, I never imagined it would become such a big part of my business. I'm incredibly grateful to every client who trusted me with their brand.
$50K is a milestone I'm proud of, but it's also a reminder of how far consistency, good work, and showing up can take you.
Here's to the next milestone!! 🤘
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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: 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 👇
this is such a great idea!
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