Akhil Raj

Gig Monitor

A bot that watches Reddit for freelance gigs and drafts outreach in real time.

See it run

Gig Monitor // SIMULATION
[Watching multireddit]/m/grind[PENDING]
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The Problem

Freelance opportunities surface on Reddit constantly, but by the time you see a thread manually, twenty people have already replied. Speed is the whole game.

What I Built

A monitor that watches a custom multireddit, and the moment a matching gig appears, drafts a tailored outreach opener with a local Ollama model and pushes it to Telegram. Secrets via environment variables, iterative token refresh, scoped model cleanup, persistent seen-state, and HTTP 429 handling.

The Outcome

Live and delivering openers to Telegram in real time. Diagnosed an ISP DNS-level block on Reddit and resolved it with Cloudflare WARP plus a split-tunnel workaround.

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