"I got tired of wasting Connects and staring at the Upwork feed all day. So I built a tool to fix it, and it completely changed my workflow." from Reddit r/saas, ranked #20. By isohaibilyas, 1 score, 0 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
I got tired of wasting Connects and staring at the Upwork feed all day. So I built a tool to fix it, and it completely changed my workflow.
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- 20
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- r/saas
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- isohaibilyas
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- 1
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- 0
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- 3/27/2026, 10:40:59 PM
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- 3/28/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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For more than a decade, I have been working on Upwork as an SEO professional. It has been my primary bread and butter, but over the last year, the manual grind of hunting for high-quality jobs was eating up 15–20 hours of my week. Finding good clients had turned into a "fastest finger" race. By the time I manually refreshed the feed or got a delayed Zapier/RSS email alert, the good jobs already had 20+ proposals. Plus, I was wasting expensive Connects applying to gigs that weren't a great fit anyway. I needed a system that understood context, not just basic keyword scraping. So, I built a tool to solve my own problem. It’s called **GigUp**. I built it to move away from the manual refresh loop and toward a "Smartest Match" workflow. Here is how I use it and how it completely changed my freelancing: * **Instant, Highly-Filtered Alerts:** Instead of tracking generic keywords, I set up smart rules (e.g., "Only show me SEO jobs paying over $50/hr from clients with a $10k+ spend history"...