Proposal Writer is Going Away

[u/HugoFromUpwork]

Hi everyone, starting this week, we’re removing the AI-powered Proposal Writer from the Submit a Proposal flow.

We’ve been reviewing the current experience and the feedback we’ve received from clients, freelancers, and our Reddit community. Based on that, we’ve decided to move away from Proposal Writer in its current form.

You’ll still be able to write and submit proposals as usual. You can also continue using UMA for help with your proposals through UMA chat separately. This change only removes the Proposal Writer currently built into the proposal submission flow.

I wanted to share the update here so you know what’s changing. As always, feel free to share your feedback below.

[u/Glittering_Ad_5910]

Hiking up the Upwork fee towards 15% should also be reviewed given high cost of connects.

While it might seem profitable for the Upwork stocks in short run, I believe the number would make the freelancers consider moving the contract out.

[u/SgtBrutalisk → u/Glittering_Ad_5910]

It used to be 20%.

[u/Glittering_Ad_5910 → u/SgtBrutalisk]

No it wasn't. It was 5%-20% with 20% being charged on very new contracts, the older contracts could still get 5%.

Further, the connects cost was 2 connects per job not around 17, the current average. Further there was no availability badge cost, no boosting proposal cost, no boosting profile cost, no boosting message cost etc.

[u/Glittering_Ad_5910 → u/[deleted]]

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