Show HN: I scraped all Upwork jobs and made an app cost estimator

1 points by pereayats 10 hours ago

I built this as a lead magnet for my software dev agency a couple months ago and it got me around 5 meetings with potential clients. Quite happy, not gonna lie.

Since I started building an agency directory I wanted to take it a step further and match the project with an agency listed on the directory (with the calendar already to schedule a meeting, sometimes an offer from the agency, ...).

There is a lot to improve but the whole idea is that: I scraped all software development jobs on Upwork to give some context to the prompt I would send to GPT-4o mini. It only sends aggregates like avg. hourly rate, avg. time spent per project, ... Since the niche is pretty well known by the AI, I think it has enough context to give a good result. But next steps would be to set up a RAG system so that we send the top X most similar jobs on the prompt to make a better job at estimating the final cost.