Gig Alert Feed
Stop losing freelance leads in your inbox.
Gig Alert Feed turns opportunity-alert emails into a clean, ranked list you can actually act on.
It is built for freelancers, service providers, and independent workers who already receive saved-search or gig-alert emails and want a calmer way to sort useful opportunities from noise.
- No scraping
- No crawling
- No hosted inbox access
- Your alerts stay local
The problem
Good opportunities often arrive buried inside messy inbox alerts.
You might get notified about a promising gig, job, project, or local lead, but it is mixed in with duplicates, spammy posts, irrelevant listings, old alerts, and things you already decided to ignore.
So instead of having a simple review list, you end up scrolling, searching, re-reading, and losing track.
Gig Alert Feed is designed to turn that mess into an actionable feed.
What it does
Gig Alert Feed takes opportunity-alert emails you already received and turns them into a private, ranked feed.
The current working version supports Craigslist saved-search alert emails and outputs an Obsidian-friendly feed note.
Each listing can include:
- a checkbox
- a clickable title
- source/search label
- suggested score
- manual score placeholder
- distance when available
- seen timestamp
- ignored-listing audit trail
- duplicate detection
- configurable ignore filters
The goal is simple: instead of browsing and scrolling, you open one clean feed and decide what is worth pursuing.
What it is not
Gig Alert Feed is not a scraper.
- It does not crawl Craigslist.
- It does not fetch live listing pages.
- It does not browse platforms for you.
- It does not require handing your inbox to a hosted app.
It works from alert emails you already receive. That keeps the workflow simpler, more private, and easier to trust.
Who it is for
Gig Alert Feed may be useful if you:
- hunt for freelance gigs
- respond to local service opportunities
- use Craigslist saved searches
- watch multiple opportunity sources
- rely on alert emails but hate inbox clutter
- want a private lead-review workflow
- prefer local-first tools over hosted dashboards
- want a lightweight system that helps you notice better opportunities faster
It is especially useful for people who already know valuable opportunities are out there, but do not want to manually dig through noisy alerts every day.
Current status
The first working version processes Craigslist saved-search alert emails into a local feed.
It can:
- read already-received alert emails
- normalize listings
- dedupe repeated opportunities
- filter out unwanted matches
- write a ranked feed note
- write an ignored-listings audit note
- keep local state so old listings do not keep resurfacing
The next step is deciding which alert sources and export paths matter most to real users. That is what early access is for.
Possible future alert sources
Craigslist is the first working source, but the broader idea is an opportunity alert feed.
- Upwork alerts
- Indeed job alerts
- LinkedIn job alerts
- Thumbtack or local service lead alerts
- Google Alerts
- newsletters
- community email lists
- local job boards
- RFP or bid alert emails
- niche trade-specific alert emails
- other saved-search or opportunity emails
Early users will help decide what gets supported next.
Possible future export paths
The current output is an Obsidian-friendly Markdown feed.
- Obsidian
- Notion
- email digest
- Google Keep
- Markdown files
- CSV
- plain text
- local dashboard
- other phone-friendly workflows
The goal is not to force one app. The goal is to help useful opportunities land somewhere you will actually review them.
Join early access
Join the early access list if you want to help shape the next version.
The short survey asks:
- What kind of opportunity alerts do you currently receive?
- Where would you want your feed exported?
- What is most annoying about your current opportunity-alert workflow?
- Would a setup kit that helps you build a private opportunity feed be useful?
Register founding-member interest
Register founding-member interest if this solves a problem you care about and you may want to support the early build.
Founding-member interest helps shape the local-first build and future setup kit. Invitations, deliverables, and terms will be handled manually before anything is offered.
The setup kit may include:
- setup checklist
- source setup recipes
- filter starter packs
- scoring rubric
- Obsidian / Markdown templates
- example workflows
- response-template prompts
- local-first configuration notes
Optional later: share a redacted alert example
After joining early access, you may be invited to share a redacted example of an alert email. This is optional.
Please remove or blur:
- your email address
- private names
- phone numbers
- account identifiers
- tracking links
- exact addresses
- sensitive location details
- anything personal or private
Synthetic or heavily redacted examples are welcome. These examples would help shape future parser support without requiring anyone to expose their private inbox.
Built around a simple principle
The best opportunity system is the one you will actually use.
Gig Alert Feed is designed to stay small, private, and practical:
- alerts you already receive
- local processing
- clean review feed
- no scraping
- no inbox-hosted SaaS requirement
- no endless dashboard to maintain
Just a better way to notice the leads worth acting on.