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Sieve 2.0 — A complete platform for technology freelancers
Sieve is a complete platform for running your freelance business without paying a percentage of your earnings.
We’ve built every tool you need to run your freelancing business faster and more efficiently — Client on-boarding, Requirement collection, NDAs, Estimations, Agreements, Invoicing and Payments.
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@imknight We've removed credit card requirement all together, to let everyone from PH test it right away, we'd be reaching out to people who already created to setup a cancellation or a workaround!
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
When we launched last time, we were scrappy and had incomplete features, PH and a hacker news discussion revealed a lot of what we were missing. As @bentossell mentioned, it was a lot of $$ to signup for.
Now after months of hard work, we're super excited to introduce Sieve 2.0 🚀 –– a complete platform for running your freelance business — without paying a percentage of your earnings.
We power the backend of your business, while you run the show.
From the point your client makes contact, all the way up to project delivery and payments, we streamline and help you manage the complete workflow — Client on-boarding, NDAs, Estimations, Agreements, Invoicing and payments.
We only charge a fixed monthly fee, all features included.. in a simple, streamlined flow 🙌
🖥 Everything starts with YOUR website — Get your free personal website.
📝 Getting requirements over the phone and via email is a mess. We help you ask the right questions and be brilliant with your clients.
📄 Auto-generated standard agreements, which you can edit. Secured with legally valid digital signatures.
💰 Invoicing and Payments from clients to your bank account in seconds. We don’t hold your payments.
☎️ Message your clients, send files, or hop on a video call right inside the platform.
👨💻 Looking for leads? We have high quality leads prospected by our leads team. Get new work every week without getting your hands dirty.
On top of that end-to-end, 360-degree support, we put you front and center - your clients will know they're working with *you*, not a third party or freelancing platform... and we do all of this without pocketing a huge percentage of your earnings, as we've seen others in the space do.
When your clients choose to work with you, they're not settling for anything less than the best - you deserve the same treatment, and Sieve is here to make that happen.
When we say we listened to the PH community and adapted Sieve accordingly, we meant it; we wouldn't be here without you, and as a token of our appreciation, the first 100 community members to sign up with promo code "SieveLovePH" will get:
1. A free month to try Sieve!
2. $29/month thereafter, discounted from our standard rate of $49/month
3. If interested, a free consulting/onboarding/strategy session with one of our Sieve experts, to help you hit the ground running!
— Sanjay and everyone at Sieve 🎉 👬👫👬👭👬
How come your homepage says "*NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED TO SIGNUP" but you need to enter card details to start the free trial? There's no point in signing up only to see a model requesting card details. I think your wording should be clearer… or don't require card details for the free trial ;)
@ryan_roberts1 We removed the text from home page 😜 But honestly, as a startup, we wanted to see if people are ready to enter their cc details, which means they are ready to pay if the service is good, and they are serious about it, we are NOT charging them now anyway. But even when I say this, I get it about the copy earlier (which we now edited) 😊
@cod3boy That's cool you've removed the text so it's less confusing :)
At the moment I wouldn't be ready to pay, I'd want to try it first and then decide whether I want to hand over card details. However, you probably don't want users like me creating accounts and then not committing ;)
Your service does look good that's for the sure 👍
@cod3boy @ryan_roberts1 I'm on the same boat, not willing to put my CC details just to test a platform.
@ryan_roberts1 @julia_braga Hey Ryan and Julia - I get it, and since you've first signed up hoping no cc required (and it was our little mistake with the copy), how about we setup a time to give you both a personal demo and I'll give you a few days to test it out? https://calendly.com/sievehq/30min 😊 Hope you accept!
Looks like a solid platform. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's essentially putting the power in the freelancers hands, by allowing them to maintain their branding and their own business. But in exchange they are finding their own work and are independent as opposed to on a marketplace like Upwork. In contract, marketplaces like Upwork actually help you find and apply to new projects and give you some of these same management tools, but they take a percentage of your earnings.
@cod3boy Question, why not also open it up to agencies as well? That have multiple employees on the team.
@hihilart Sounds like you totally get it 😅, so we are setting up a private beta with some agencies as we speak, please refer if you know someone who might be interested. One aspect we are focussing for agencies is to have a widget that they can embed to their existing website, and also team support for multiple people.
@sanjrng Thanks SKR, we are not a marketplace yet, it has to be initiated by the freelancer. We don't handle disputes now but keep an eye 😉 We are still figuring out about the number of leads, as we are trying to see if we can deliver leads based on the expertise of the freelancer, so I don't have a fixed number yet.
It looks interesting from the photos but I'm not willing to give my credit card info before I even get to demo. I would prefer that the system lock me out after a trial run or something before requesting my credit card information.
@candicodeit Would love to give you a personal demo, can you please book a time with us here https://calendly.com/sievehq/30min ?
Hi Sanjay/ Arun,
Congrats on the launch. Looks sleek than the previous version, excited to try 😄
@shipper Looking forward to on-boarding you! Let me know if you have any questions or if we can setup a personal demo for you! https://calendly.com/sievehq/30min
I was looking for something similar for the freelancers working for me and stumbled upon Sieve. The previous version was not very intuitive and really look forward to try this one.
Pros:UI and Ease of On boarding
Cons:None
Sounds a really interesting product, and all credit to you for developing it further based on previous feedback. Some thoughts that may increase free signup conversions further:
- I was unsure about the free website - what if you already have one, and how much control do you have over the free website you get? Would be useful for a link to a separate page that went through how all that works.
- The images for startup school, draper etc. are poor and contrast from the rest of the page which is clean and crisp
- In the 'Streamlined process for your clients' bit, like that you can click on the right to get different images reflecting the process, but I kind of found it was clickable by accident, I didn't expect it to be - so something that helps visitors know they can click would be good, and would be good to click on the tilted images to see the full image without a tilt so you can look at the interface properly (that's what I wanted to do)
- You're likely to get more sales via a tiered pricing structure, e.g. a starter level at sub $20 perhaps with a few features, allowing people to test it out more, but upgrade for things like leads
Just some further ideas... love the concept, congrats!
@steve_shaw Thanks Steve - for taking time to write such a detailed feedback, we'll put together some more help pages, and work on the other suggestions. We are also considering tiered pricing soon.
I'd love to use this. Was looking for something like this. What kind of payment integrations do you have?
@deenday34830189 Awesome! would love to give you a personal demo, can you please book a convenient time here https://calendly.com/sievehq/30min also, we are currently using Stripe for payments, so we support all major credit/debit cards.
alright this is great but why can't i login? it keeps redirecting me back to the home page
@iam_chuksfestus There were some issues with Auth0 https://status.auth0.com/inciden... but it's resolved now, please check again and really sorry for the inconvenience!
@cod3boy @iam_chuksfestus if you have ublock or ghostery enable on your browser, you need to disable it in order to login
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