Another reason to avoid upwork. It was too much noise vs signal already, now we have bots as a service...
Use Toptal instead, human filtering on both sides
Thanks for the feedback. Honestly, this is just a tool in the arsenal of any freelancer. You still need to possess skills to do the work and communicate that you can do it for your clients. UpWork doesn't have to be a race to the bottom. I've charged high hourly rates while using the same notifications.
I built this application as a 'Micro-SaaS' after setting up alerts for myself with UpWork's RSS-Feeds. A lot of my motivation for making this was to learn web-dev and infrastructure better. The tech stack is essentially just Flask, Docker and Postgres. All hosted on AWS.