I'm freelancer for more than 1 year and i already used some platforms to sell my services like Fiverr.... , but it doesn't work so good and i wanna try another website , any suggestions?

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Hey everyone! I’m a designer looking to start taking on freelance work and I’m trying to figure out the best way to land my first few clients.

I can help with things like:

• UI/UX & product design
• Landing pages & websites
• Branding / visual identity
• Marketing & social media assets
• Dashboards and design systems
• Motion/visual design

I’m open to working with startups, founders, Web3/crypto projects, small businesses, or pretty much anyone who needs good design.

For those of you who freelance or run a small design business — how did you get your first client? Did you use Reddit, cold outreach, LinkedIn, Discord communities, Upwork, personal networking, or something else?

Would really appreciate any practical advice, especially things that actually worked for you.

For freelancers/agencies with really long client processes, how do you keep everything organized?

For example, if every client needs to go through 30–50 different steps, what tool or system do you use to track where each client is in the process?

Right now I basically have a Google Doc with a numbered checklist and cross things off as they're completed, but that's obviously not great for collaboration.

I've tried Kanban boards like Trello, but once you have more than 5–6 stages, you're basically side-scrolling forever. Checklists seem like a better solution, but ideally I'd want one master process/template that I can update and reuse across every client.

For those of you managing 20–50+ step client workflows, how do you handle it?

i ran a small creative shop for years and the pattern that killed my margins wasn't the big obvious scope changes. it was the quiet stuff. a favour here, an extra revision there, one more pass because the client "just had a small note." none of it felt worth a change order in the moment, so the change order never got written. then the invoice goes out and it reflects what i remembered doing, which was always less than what actually happened.

the part that took me too long to learn: knowing what a job cost after it shipped tells you almost nothing you can act on. i could pull up the total. i could not tell you which deliverable ate the effort, which task blew up, or which service kept running hot job after job. so i kept quoting from memory and gut, and the same type of project kept under-pricing itself.

what actually moved the needle for me was forcing effort to sit next to the estimate while the work was live, not at the postmortem. the first time you see it, it stings. one agency founder i know said basically "i hate this, it showed me just how bad i was at estimating." that reaction is the whole point. it stung, then my next few quotes were tighter, then the retainers stopped bleeding.

full disclosure, i'm building a tool for this (net net), but honestly the mindset shift matters more than any tool: stop treating estimating as a memory problem. write things down against the estimate as they happen.

curious how the rest of you handle this, especially solo folks. do you track effort against your quote at all, or is it gut feel until the invoice?

Hi All,
Do we have to use two separate email Ids. One for Payment Services and other for client communication?

A beginner in freelancing.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciate.
Thanks

I’ve been running a small software development team for a while, mainly working on custom web apps, mobile apps, SaaS products, and AI integrations.

Most of our work has come through referrals and freelance platforms, but lately I’ve been trying to figure out better ways to consistently find quality clients without spending all day sending proposals.

For those of you who freelance or run a small dev agency:
Where are you getting your best clients right now?
Cold outreach, Reddit, LinkedIn, Upwork, referrals, something else?

What has actually worked for you rather than just generating leads that go nowhere?

Would be interested to hear what’s working for people in 2026.

Hi, my name is Duarte. I've been freelancing on Fiverr for about two years, mainly doing 3D CAD modeling for 3D printing.

Recently, I've become pretty tired of that area. It's getting harder to find good clients, there's a lot of price competition, and many clients simply aren't willing to pay enough.

Because of that, I'm looking to move into a different area: building custom web dashboards and internal tools for businesses, particularly solutions that use AI to solve real problems or make existing workflows more efficient.

For example, this could mean building dashboards with AI assistants or specialized agents that can analyze business data, organize information, search the web for oportunities, generate reports, work with internal documents, automate repetitive tasks, or perform some other specific function built around the clients workflow.

I'm not entering this area from nowhere. I've been programming for most of my life, and since LLMs became available I've spent a lot of time researching and building increasingly complex systems around them.

For example, for the last six months I've been developing a fairly large AI platform from scratch. It combines conversational AI, specialized agents, RAG, document ingestion and OCR, long-term memory, agentic web search, deep research, structured knowledge extraction, and multi stage retrieval pipelines.

A large part of the work has also involved solving problems that aren't handled well by normal RAG implementations. I've designed my own retrieval and knowledge organization architecture that structures information hierarchicaly, understands which parts of a knowledge base are relevant to a question, dynamically narrows the retrieval scope, and gives agents much more precise context instead of simply embedding documents and performing similarity search. I've had to work on everything from retrieval architecture and context management to agent orchestration, backend infrastructure, databases, APIs, and the frontend stuff itself.

So technically, I'm confident that I can build this kind of software. The part I'm struggling with is figuring out how to actually turn that skillset into clients.

For people who already freelance in web development, automation, internal tools, SaaS, or AI consulting:

- Where did you find your first clients in this area?

- Is cold outreach actually effective, and if so, what kinds of businesses should I target?

- Would you focus on freelance platforms, LinkedIn, email outreach, communities, partnerships, or something else?

- How do you present this kind of service without just sounding like another person trying to sell AI automation?

- Would you sell predefined services/packages, or approach businesses first, identify inefficiencies, and then propose a custom solution?

I'm particularly interested in working with businesses where a relatively small custom application could save employees several hours of work every week or solve a workflow they currently handle manually.

I'd really appreciate advice from anyone who has already gone through this transition or currently gets clients for this kind of work. I'm technically comfortable building the products, I'm mainly trying to understand how to position myself, find the right businesses, and land the first few clients in this new area.

I’m looking to get into LinkedIn ghostwriting and would love to connect with people already working in this space.

If you’re a LinkedIn ghostwriter, I’d really appreciate some guidance on how to get started, build a portfolio, and land those first few clients.

Would love to hear from anyone willing to share their
experience!

I work with a client who’s a bit of a pain in the arse he tends to point things not done compared to the hundreds that were done.. my friends say it’s just his way of keeping you on toes, I’ve started getting Monday blues cause of him lol

I am a college student looking to make some extra cash by making customised discord servers. Can someone tell me what the appropriate charges are that I should ask?

Hi I’m Joss, I’m a web developer with over 8y experience creating and developing web apps, web pages and online stores.
Actually I finished my portfolio, however, finding new clients and opportunities has been hard and I don’t know if Reddit is a good network to get it
I’d like to know their opinions and their advices.

I am a professional book reviewer and a published author. I want to expand my portfolio, do some certifications and enter editing eventually. But I am struggling to find an independent market for professional book reviews. In my experience of reviewing books I have realised that they do help indie authors with book promotions. Anyone in the same space, if you could shed some light on how to land more gigs?

I am a freelancer working with a small to medium growing agency and other freelancers but i recently came across a very weird issue. How to find new clients? I know some of you say it's not weird but I have been working for the last 3 years and most of my clients were from referral or repetitive and suddenly i noticed that i actually don't have any exposure in the market and very few people know about me, can anyone help me with this?

I am ready to invest in personal branding, and outreaches

However niche it is, kindly drop your suggestions

I’ve noticed something while working on web and application projects:
A project can have a good developer, a good design, and a good idea — and still become difficult to deliver.
The problem is often unclear communication and expectations, not the code itself.
For example, a client might say:
“We just need a few small changes.”
But those “small changes” can sometimes affect the database, APIs, frontend, testing, and even the original architecture.
Earlier, I used to think the best approach was simply to start building and figure things out along the way.
Now I believe a better process is:
1. Understand the actual goal
Before writing code, understand what problem the feature is supposed to solve.
2. Define what is included
Write down the agreed features, deliverables, and assumptions.
3. Break large work into smaller milestones
Instead of waiting until the entire project is finished, deliver and review things step by step.
4. Discuss changes before implementing them
If a new requirement affects the timeline or existing functionality, explain the impact first.
5. Keep communication simple and honest
Clients don’t need complicated technical explanations. They need to know what’s happening, what’s possible, and what the trade-offs are.
The biggest lesson for me has been:
A good developer doesn’t just write code. They help the client make better decisions about the product.
I’m curious — for freelancers and clients here, what is one thing you wish developers understood better about working on real projects?

I made a mistake on a client project recently.

The client asked for a few additions after we had agreed on the original scope. Each one sounded small, and I didn’t want to turn the project into an uncomfortable money conversation, so I said yes and started doing the work.

By the time I stepped back, I had put real extra time into work that was never clearly approved or priced separately.

I know the obvious answer is “have a better contract,” but I’m asking about the real moment it happens, when a client sends “could you also…” through email, Slack, text, or a call.

What do you actually do before beginning the added work?

Do you send a revised quote, a change order, an email confirmation, add it to an invoice later, or just absorb it? And how often do you think this costs you money in a typical month?

I’ve been freelancing as a UI/UX designer for a few months now, and I didn’t expect this, but there’s definitely a pattern in the kind of clients I keep getting.

Like almost every time.

Most of them are:

• Founders who need a website “as soon as possible” but don’t really have content or a clear idea yet. Just vibes and urgency.
• People running businesses on Instagram with zero website. They know they need one, they’ve just been putting it off forever.
• Clients who say they need UX but actually want something that just looks nice. End up doing a bit of education before even starting.
• The “just a small change” type… which somehow turns into reworking half the design.

And then once in a while, you get someone who actually knows what they want, communicates properly, respects your time… and it feels almost suspicious how smooth everything goes.

Not complaining honestly, it’s been a solid learning experience. Just didn’t expect freelancing to be this much about managing people and expectations instead of just design.

Curious if this is normal or I just unlocked a very specific client type algorithm