Freelance Job Finder

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Node.js bot that scrapes 4 freelance platforms hourly and pushes new listings to Telegram in real time. Deployed to shared LumaDock VPS with PM2 + Docker.

Node.jsPuppeteerTelegram APIPM2DockerVPS

Land the first hour of every freelance job before the competition wakes up.

The problem

Best-paying freelance gigs go to whoever applies in the first 60 minutes. Refreshing Upwork, Toptal, and two other platforms manually is tedious and you still miss them in your sleep.

The approach

Same shape as the pharmacy bot, retargeted at freelance platforms with filtering for stack + budget. Container is shared on a LumaDock VPS to keep hosting cost trivial. Listings are filtered server-side against my stack preferences so only relevant ones hit Telegram — signal over noise.

Tech decisions

Stack + budget filter

Generic alerts become noise fast; filtering at the source keeps alerts actionable

Shared Docker host (LumaDock)

Trivial cost amortized across multiple small bots on the same VPS

Puppeteer with stealth flags

Several platforms aggressively block headless browsers; stealth profile is required

Telegram channel per stack

Separate channels mean I can mute irrelevant ones without losing the signal

Outcomes

Sub-hour latency from listing → notification
Stack + budget filter strips noise before alerting
Multiple Telegram channels for different work types
Running on shared VPS with negligible per-bot cost

What I learned

Apply latency is the single biggest factor in winning competitive freelance gigs. A 30-minute head start on a posting wins more bids than a 30% better proposal.