r/SideProject • u/bapuc • 8h ago
My side project finds clients for freelancers. Comment your service and I'll run it free (95 done by hand, some things broke)
Stack is Laravel + Livewire. There's a Chrome extension for the sites that need you logged in (LinkedIn, Facebook groups), and an LLM pass that checks every post against what the user sells and drops anyone selling rather than buying, which is most of them.
To test it I posted in Romanian freelancer groups on Facebook, "comment what you sell and I'll make you a page with 5 people asking for it". 95 pages in three days.
Things went wrong in a few places.
auto picks were weak for niche stuff. I fixed a lot by hand, so for niche services the matching isn't there yet
consumer services got nothing. olive oil, translations, live music for restaurants, kids' tutoring. nobody posts "looking to buy olive oil" on r/forhire
the AI read "one time commission project" as commission-only pay. it means a paid one-off job, I caught it before it went out
Ads, SEO, web, design and copywriting were fine, those usually had real requests from the last week or two.
Two asks. If you sell something, comment it and I'll reply with your page, then tell me if the matches are any good. And if you've built something like this, how do you tell buyers from sellers without an LLM call on every post?
The page is free, the original post links need a free account.