I think there is a lot of potential here with Contra, but Contra will have to up their game a little. One of the suggestions that I have for the platform is instead of focusing on building a platform where freelancers onboard their clients, they become a marketplace where clients can find freelancers and hire them.

Sounds like upwork and fiverr, right? Well, not really. This platform has a unique feature that other freelancing platforms don't have, content. Freelancers come here to post about stuff and build their personal brand. That personal brand will help clients select and hire the perfect freelancers for their project. But for this to happen, Contra will have to port away from "freelancers will find their clients and we will onboard them" to "we will find clients for them and onboard clients on our platform".