Algirdas Kolesnikovas

I made a manual Excel tracker for Upwork proposal costs, and I'm interested in how other freelancers keep their records useful.

One distinction matters: the cost of a winning proposal is not the total spent applying for work.

For a hypothetical completed set of 10 proposals, suppose each uses 14 purchased Connects, none are returned, and exactly one leads to a contract. At USD 0.15 per Connect, the set uses USD 21 in Connects, while the winning proposal alone uses USD 2.10. This is an illustration, not a typical win rate or earnings forecast. It excludes boosts, membership, other fees, taxes and time.

That's why my approach is to log every proposal, keep its status separate, and record earnings and withdrawals separately from contracts.

Kryzz AI is a free, MIT-licensed Android app for people who want an AI assistant without another account or subscription. You paste your own OpenRouter key, it uses hosted models (nothing runs on the phone itself), and your chats, memory, files and keys stay on the device. There's no Kryzz server in the middle.

It just went past 200 APK downloads from GitHub releases, all from posting and writing about it, no ads. This week it also got its first signed release build, about 19 MB instead of the old 82 MB debug one.

The honest weak spot is the first five minutes: getting an OpenRouter key is a step a lot of people don't want to do. If you tried it, or decided not to, I'd really like to hear where it lost you.

Download (Android 9+): https://github.com/kriddss3/kryz...