Built an AI job hunting system that runs 24/7 while I sleep
Tired of manually checking Upwork every day, so I automated the whole thing.
What it does:
• Scans ~12 freelance platforms every 30 minutes
• AI scores each job 1-10 based on my skills and budget fit
• Deduplicates against a database so I never see the same job twice
• Sends Telegram alerts only for high-scoring matches
• Separate workflow generates a full proposal when I forward a job URL to the bot
Stack: n8n + Groq (llama-3.3-70b) + Supabase + SerpAPI + Apify + Raspberry Pi 3
Running it on a Pi at home, costs basically nothing to operate.
What surprised me: the proposal quality from pure automation is decent but still template-ish — the real value is never missing a good opportunity, not replacing the writing entirely.
Still early (no contracts landed yet from it) but the signal-to-noise ratio on alerts is actually solid.
Anyone else built something similar? Curious what scoring criteria you’re using for job matching.