Rendr Private Beta: A Mac App for Managing Freelance BusinessRendr Private Beta: A Mac App for Managing Freelance Business
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The work is the easy part. As a freelancer, the hard part is everything around the actual work: finding work that fits, pitching it well, following up at the right time, and making sure you actually get paid. Most tools help you manage projects you already have. Very few help with the rest. So I built Rendr, a Mac app for the business side of freelancing. Today I'm opening a small private beta. Here's what it does: → Job finder: Searches open job boards, the careers pages of companies you want to work for, and your Contra feed, then scores each posting against your resume and explains why it fits. → Site audits: Paste a business's website and Rendr checks its speed, search basics and accessibility, then writes a review and a short outreach email. → Applications: A tailored resume, cover letter and application answers in about a minute. Every line comes from your real resume and shows where it came from. → Proposals and Pipeline: Track every lead to a signed proposal, draft proposals with packages and pricing, and get a follow-up drafted when a proposal goes quiet. → Money: See what's come in, which invoices are open or overdue, and every subscription you pay for, with a heads-up before renewals. → Command: Your day in order, with a short daily briefing. With many more features to come! It's private by design. There's no account and no Rendr server; your clients, proposals and files all stay on your Mac. AI features run on your own Claude API key, and Rendr drafts but never sends anything on your behalf. Everyone in the beta uses it free while it runs. After the 2 month beta, this will be a one-time purchase of $79 for lifetime access. I have a personal mission to build products that accelerate people's lives, and I'm not interested in subscription models for that. If you freelance on a Mac (macOS 12 or later), request access at gorendr.com and I'll send you the install file and invite code. I'd love your honest feedback!
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gayathri's avatar
I have requested access. So you built this alone or is there a team behind it. Looks awesome!
Evan's avatar
Thanks Gayathri, you should have an invite code sent to your email. This was all just me, I'm the entire team 😂
Jan's avatar
love that it drafts but never sends anything on its own, that's the right call. for the site audits, where do your beta users usually find the business websites to paste in?
Evan's avatar
Great question! At the moment this feature relies on the user to type in or paste in a site they know they want to audit specifically. In future releases, I will be including functionality to pull in sites within a certain radius of the user's location (with additional controls...
Jan's avatar
radius pull would be a big one, finding the businesses is half the job. are you planning to find the owner's email too, or leave that part to the user?
Evan's avatar
Another great question! The audit already looks through the website to identify contact details to include in pitches that are emailed.
Johnson's avatar
The job finder scoring posts against your resume is a clever way to cut down on the noise of irrelevant listings. It turns a passive search into a targeted filter that saves hours of scrolling through mismatched requirements.
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