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by Pipeliners 3551 days ago
Thought I'd write a bit here to explain our background -- I'm James and I'm a UX/UI designer. I've freelanced for 5 years and had the struggle of dry spells and bad clients. I then began winning more work and came up with a few methods to find relevant projects.

I saw a few similar services to Pipeline but felt that they were quite pricy, so I wanted to release something myself and scale up my own methods of finding work, whilst avoiding a spammy and crappy service. I partnered up with another person and we launched Pipeline a few weeks ago.

It's built in Webflow at the moment and it's hooked up to Stripe + Moonclerk for payments.

We source leads in 3 ways:

1.) We aggregate leads from 200+ sites, job boards, Slack groups etc. 2.) We have partnerships with a few recruiters who send us leads in exchange for having their roles filled quickly. 3.) Some leads are sent directly through Pipeline.

We have found it to be a useful service but we have room for improvement and we're working on version 2.0 which will allow users to register, view project leads within Pipeline etc (we're hiring for this over on Reddit).

Thanks for looking and I hope this can at least help 1 person!

2 comments

It looks like an interesting service, but it is difficult do judge a quality without getting actually relevant (to me) sample of freelance gigs... For example I recently specialize in creative coding on HTML5 Canvas and I kind of doubt I would get many truly relevant leads simply because of my narrow focus.

This does not mean this is not a good service, but it might work well for Angular developer (popular speciality) and not at all for somebody like me (fairly niche speciality). And without a 'test drive' I have no idea...

Yes you're right. We've had people write to us with certain skills and we've had to say that we simply can't provide enough high quality or relevant leads for that certain area. We'd love to incorporate a free trial in the future, but at the moment it's quite a bit of work to gather leads for each user, but the handpicked aspect is the heart of our service and we'd hate to automate that. We'll have to add to our team and then think about offering a trial!
Why not hire for the 1.0 version through pipeline?
Yep we're going to send that out in next week's email too, but as a 'bonus' lead (as we make sure that for normal leads, no more than 3 people max receive the same lead).

Glad someone spotted that heh!