Pipeliners

Hi! We're currently limiting users to 100 with a view of taking up to 250 users in the future if we feel there are enough leads. -James

Thanks for the reply and the feedback! Leads don't get asked to be contacted by Pipeline users unless they submit leads through Pipeline itself. They have, however, placed project advertisements or work with recruiters so they expect to be contacted - I'm not really sure I understand this point. They don't get contacted every week, only whilst they are hiring (and we only advertise the same positions to 3 users max).

• "edit: saw "We aggregate leads from 200+ sites, job boards, Slack groups etc.""

Why is it super gross? We find and filter many, many, many leads that are super low quality and unsuitable, we're taking a lot of the sourcing work out of the hands of freelancers/agencies and we find leads from people/companies/websites that they're likely not to have visited. For us, the point of this service is to send filtered and high quality leads, saving our users time and resources that could be better spent on completing projects. Hope that makes sense?

Yes absolutely - that's why we spent so long selecting leads at the weekend and on Monday, because they're the freshest and those are the ones we try to send (unless a company has got in touch through Pipeline).

Hi! You raise some great points. A free trial is our most frequent request but it's quite a tricky one for us because there is a large time investment to find and handpick leads for each user, and if we offered a free trial, we wouldn't be able to offer the same quality across the board. Your idea to show a description without linking to the company is a great idea though, this could be a 'free' tier, where we show projects without contact information and users can pay a small fee to reveal them. Awesome!

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!

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!

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!