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LinkedIn profile rewrites for laid-off software engineers

Laid-off engineers are job hunting now and pay quickly for a profile that gets recruiters to reply.

Skills you can bring: Recruiting experience in tech and an ear for a strong profile

Offer reviews for tech job candidates, with a fair pay range and a negotiation script

Candidates holding an offer face a deadline with real money at stake, and the research comes from public sources.

Skills you can bring: Recruiting experience in tech and a negotiator's instincts

Audits for dental practices of how they appear in map listings and AI search answers

Dentists now worry about whether AI answers recommend them, and checking and fixing listings is repeatable work.

Skills you can bring: Marketing experience with dental practices and contacts who run them

A relocation program for Americans moving to Portugal, with paperwork guides and a community

People planning a move abroad pay for a clear path, because the official rules are public but scattered.

Skills you can bring: Having made the move yourself, or an immigration license

A deal check for first-time buyers of small businesses, done before they make an offer

Lenders now expect buyers to check the seller's earnings, and a check before the offer saves time and fees.

Skills you can bring: Accounting, lending or brokerage experience

A 30-day career-switch plan for teachers moving into instructional design

Teachers who want out of the classroom pay for a clear plan, and they want help right away.

Skills you can bring: Having made the same switch, and contacts in the new field

Counter-Strike betting picks for esports bettors, with a public record of every pick

Esports bettors pay for picks in the game they follow, and match data is public and easy to model.

Skills you can bring: Deep knowledge of the game and a following among its fans

A launch course for new short-term rental hosts, with pricing and listing templates

New hosts pay for help pricing and listing, and the market research for each city is repeatable.

Skills you can bring: Experience running rentals and knowing what makes a listing book

A course for first-time buyers on buying and running a laundromat

Would-be owners want a step-by-step path to their first deal, with the numbers checked for them.

Skills you can bring: Having bought or run a small business

Food label and allergen checks for home bakers who sell what they bake

Home bakers must follow written labeling rules to sell legally, and many look for help getting them right.

Skills you can bring: Food-safety training or kitchen experience

Property-tax appeal packets for homeowners in Cook County

Many homeowners pay tax on too high an assessment, and the evidence for an appeal is in public records.

Skills you can bring: Appraisal or real-estate experience in the county

Monthly removal of people's personal details from data-broker websites

People already pay monthly to have their details removed, and AI can fill in the opt-out forms.

Skills you can bring: Privacy or security know-how and a voice people trust

Scholarship lists and essay drafts for high-school seniors in Texas

Families of seniors look hard for scholarship money, and many awards get few applicants.

Skills you can bring: School counseling or admissions experience

Menu costing and price-increase reports for independent restaurants

Restaurant owners work on thin margins and need menu prices that keep up with supplier costs.

Skills you can bring: Kitchen management experience and comfort with food-cost math

Daily check-in calls for older adults who live alone, with a summary sent to family

Adult children worry about parents who live alone, and a daily call eases that for a small monthly fee.

Skills you can bring: Experience in elder care and a way of earning families' trust

Audits for Shopify stores that get visitors but few sales, showing why shoppers leave

Store owners with visitors and no sales know something is wrong, and much of the audit can be automated.

Skills you can bring: Ecommerce design experience and an eye for what makes shoppers hesitate

Pre-launch checks for apps built with AI tools, covering security, payments and broken pages

Many people now build apps without coding, and they worry about what they missed before launch.

Skills you can bring: Software or security experience and a calm way of explaining risk

Monthly upkeep for apps built by non-developers, fixing errors and installing updates

Non-developers can now build apps but not maintain them, and a monthly fee fits that ongoing need.

Skills you can bring: Engineering experience and a community of no-code builders

License and permit renewal reminders for food-truck owners

A missed renewal can shut a food truck down, and reminders are simple to run.

Skills you can bring: Running a food truck and knowing its paperwork

Grant searches and first drafts for small animal-rescue nonprofits

Small nonprofits rarely have a grant writer, and finding and drafting grants is mostly research and writing.

Skills you can bring: Grant-writing experience and contacts in animal rescue

Required workplace posters for small employers in California, with updates when laws change

Employers must post these notices by law, and they already pay to receive updated sets.

Skills you can bring: HR or employment-law knowledge and contacts among small employers

Paperwork packets for widows and widowers in Ohio, with letters for banks and benefits offices

Grieving spouses face a pile of forms at once, and each step follows written rules.

Skills you can bring: Estate or funeral-industry experience and a gentle writing voice

Compensation claims for travelers whose flights to or from Europe were delayed or canceled

EU law owes these passengers money, and many will pay a share of it to have someone else collect.

Skills you can bring: Travel-industry knowledge and persistence with airlines

Parking-ticket appeal letters for drivers in Chicago

Drivers hate paying tickets they think are unfair, and appeals follow the city's written rules.

Skills you can bring: Knowing the city's ticket rules and a following among its drivers

Appeal packets for people who got a Social Security overpayment notice

These notices are frightening and come with deadlines, and the appeal forms follow fixed rules.

Skills you can bring: Benefits-advocacy or paralegal experience

Valuation reports for drivers who think their insurer lowballed their totaled car

Drivers often think the insurer's offer is low, and recent sales of similar cars make the case.

Skills you can bring: Insurance or car-sales experience and comfort with pricing data

Pre-purchase reports for used-EV buyers, covering battery health, history and a fair price

Used-EV buyers worry most about the battery, and many look up a car's history before they buy.

Skills you can bring: EV or car-dealer experience and a following among EV shoppers

Reports that tell pet owners whether a vet bill is fair

Pet owners who look for this often face a large bill that day and want to know before they pay.

Skills you can bring: Veterinary or clinic experience and a calm way of explaining costs

County-by-county cost reports for families choosing care for an aging parent

Families face these choices suddenly, and care costs differ widely from one county to the next.

Skills you can bring: Elder-care or social-work experience and a gentle, clear voice

Paid travel guides in French for walkers on the Camino de Santiago

Travelers pay for good guides in their own language, and many popular routes have none.

Skills you can bring: Having walked the route and writing well in French

Paid question-and-answer access to a quant-finance expert

People pay for direct answers from a real expert, and AI can draft replies for the expert to check.

Skills you can bring: Recognized expertise in your field

Reports for consumer brands that check an influencer for fake followers and past results

Brands waste money on fake reach, and a check before paying an influencer costs less than one bad deal.

Skills you can bring: Influencer-marketing experience and contacts at consumer brands

A paid newsletter for independent pharmacy owners on new rules that affect them

Pharmacy owners pay to hear about rule changes before those changes cost them money.

Skills you can bring: Working in pharmacy and a clear writing voice

Ready-made n8n and Zapier automations for small marketing agencies, sold one at a time

Busy agencies pay for automations that work on install, and each template costs nothing to deliver.

Skills you can bring: Automation skill and knowing where agencies waste time

A calculator site for home brewers, earning from ads and affiliate links

Home brewers come back to useful calculators again and again, and simple tools are quick to build.

Skills you can bring: Knowing brewing math and the questions brewers ask

Résumés rewritten for each job posting, for job seekers applying to many roles

Job seekers apply to many roles at once, and AI can now rewrite a résumé for each posting in seconds.

Skills you can bring: Recruiting experience and an ear for what hiring managers skim for

A deck-builder widget that trading-card stores add to their websites

Card stores want players to build decks on their own site and buy the cards there.

Skills you can bring: Standing in the card-game scene and contacts with store owners

A wedding-flower budget calculator that florists put on their websites for couples

Couples look up flower costs early, and florists want leads who already know what they can spend.

Skills you can bring: Floristry or wedding experience and contacts with florists

A deal and reservation tracker for families planning Disney World trips

Theme-park fans plan months ahead and watch closely for deals and hard-to-get reservations.

Skills you can bring: Expert knowledge of the parks and a following among fans

Reports that show credit-card points collectors how to get the most from each card

Points collectors want the most value from each card, and working out the best use is mostly math.

Skills you can bring: Expertise in travel points and comfort with the math

Identity-theft recovery for victims, with every report, freeze and dispute done for them

Victims are stressed and short on time, and the recovery steps are known but tedious.

Skills you can bring: Fraud or banking experience and a calm phone manner

Medical-bill negotiation for patients, paid as a share of the savings

Medical bills often contain errors, and patients will share the savings with whoever finds them.

Skills you can bring: Medical billing or coding certification

An app that waits on hold for people and calls them back when a person answers

Nearly everyone hates waiting on hold, and a call-back saves real time.

Skills you can bring: Telephony or software experience

Grade estimates for sports-card collectors deciding whether to send a card for grading

Grading costs money and takes weeks, so collectors want to know first whether a card will score well.

Skills you can bring: Grading expertise and standing among collectors

A planning app for couples having a micro-wedding or elopement

Couples planning small weddings need help but not a full planner's price.

Skills you can bring: Wedding-planning experience and taste in small, personal events

Paperwork packets for pet owners moving their dog or cat to another country

Moving a pet abroad means confusing forms and deadlines, and owners pay to get them right.

Skills you can bring: Veterinary or pet-relocation experience

Comparison reports on hair-transplant clinics for men considering the procedure

Men weighing a costly procedure look hard for honest comparisons of clinics.

Skills you can bring: Knowledge of the cosmetic-surgery industry, or medical training

Permit and HOA approval packets for homeowners planning a deck or fence

Homeowners look for permit help because approvals stall their projects.

Skills you can bring: Contractor or permit-office experience

Feasibility checks for homeowners who want to add a backyard ADU

Homeowners want to know whether an ADU is allowed on their lot before they pay an architect.

Skills you can bring: Architecture, building or zoning experience

Plain-English summaries of home-inspection reports for homebuyers

Buyers get long, alarming inspection reports and need to know which problems matter.

Skills you can bring: Inspection or contractor experience and contacts among real-estate agents

Parts-compatibility guides for people building out camper vans

Van builders check compatibility before every purchase, and a reliable guide earns repeat visits.

Skills you can bring: Hands-on experience building out vans

Preparation packets for people taking a case to small-claims court

People in small-claims court usually have no lawyer and want to arrive ready.

Skills you can bring: Paralegal or court experience

Dispute letters for homeowners fighting HOA fines

Homeowners who feel unfairly fined want a firm, correct reply that cites the HOA's own rules.

Skills you can bring: HOA board or property-management experience

A benefits finder that shows new parents every government and employer benefit they qualify for

New parents miss benefits they qualify for and have no time to look for them.

Skills you can bring: Social-work or benefits experience and a following among parents

Security ratings for companies choosing which MCP servers to connect to their AI tools

Companies connecting AI tools to their systems need to know which connections are safe.

Skills you can bring: Security expertise and contacts for enterprise sales

Checks that confirm users are real people, sold to dating sites and online marketplaces

Fake accounts hurt dating sites and marketplaces, and operators pay to keep them out.

Skills you can bring: Trust-and-safety experience and sales contacts at marketplaces

A marketplace where hairstylists who move or retire sell their client lists

Stylists who move or retire have client lists with real value and no way to sell them.

Skills you can bring: Contacts in the salon industry and comfort brokering deals

A resale service for families selling cemetery plots they inherited

Families inherit plots they don't need, and buyers look for plots below cemetery prices.

Skills you can bring: Funeral or real-estate experience

A marketplace where families hire vetted companions and sober companions

Families pay for company and recovery support they can trust, and the vetting is what they pay for.

Skills you can bring: Recovery or care experience and a network of trusted people

Video of tradespeople doing hands-on tasks, sold to robot makers as training data

Robot makers need real footage of people at work to train their machines.

Skills you can bring: Contacts in a trade and at robotics companies

Modern scheduling and billing software for dental offices that still run dated systems

Many dental offices still run dated software, and AI makes building a modern replacement much cheaper.

Skills you can bring: Insider knowledge of dental offices and the ability to sell to them

A pre-launch check for apps built with AI tools, with a list of fixes

People who build an app with AI tools want someone to check it before strangers use it.

Skills you can bring: Experience as a software engineer or security tester

A job-offer review for engineers, covering the employer, fair pay and how to negotiate

Engineers holding an offer have a deadline and money at stake, and most of the research is public.

Skills you can bring: Years of hiring or recruiting engineers

Automatic fixes for software teams when an API they use changes

Teams put off upgrades, and AI can read the changelog and write the fix for a person to review.

Skills you can bring: Deep knowledge of one widely used API

Fixes for broken apps built with AI tools, with a plain account of what went wrong

Founders who built an app with AI tools often can't debug it, and they need it working today.

Skills you can bring: Fast debugging in many languages and frameworks

A service that lets AI agents search current building permits, gathered from city records

Teams building agents need current data, and public records are messy enough that they'll pay for a clean copy.

Skills you can bring: Data engineering experience with public records

A report for software companies on whether an AI agent can sign up, use their API and pay

Buyers now send AI agents to try products, and most sign-up pages were built only for people.

Skills you can bring: Experience designing APIs and testing sign-up flows

An AI phone agent that answers plumbers' evening calls and books the job

A missed evening call is a lost job for a plumber, and AI voice agents can now take a booking reliably.

Skills you can bring: Experience building with voice and calendar APIs

A severance review for laid-off tech workers, with what's usual and a script to ask for more

People offered severance have a short deadline to sign, and most have never negotiated one.

Skills you can bring: Management or HR experience at a tech company

Security scores for the connectors teams add to their AI agents, with a paid report per team

Teams connecting AI agents to their systems want to know which connectors are safe to install.

Skills you can bring: Security expertise and contacts who choose tools at companies

A cloud bill review for startups spending under $20,000 a month, listing the five biggest savings

Small teams rarely have anyone watching the cloud bill, and the biggest savings are often a few settings.

Skills you can bring: Hands-on cloud operations experience

A check that runs every code sample in a developer tool's docs and fixes the broken ones

Broken code samples cost developer tools sign-ups, and AI can run every sample against the latest release.

Skills you can bring: Experience writing developer documentation

A monthly report on how AI assistants describe one developer tool and which rivals they suggest

Developers now ask AI assistants which tool to use, and companies can't see those answers on their own.

Skills you can bring: Developer marketing experience

Alerts for teams running AI agents when a run loops or goes over its budget

Teams running AI agents get surprise bills from runs that loop, and a simple watcher catches most of them.

Skills you can bring: Experience running AI agents in production

Monitoring for small teams' scheduled jobs, with an alert when a job fails to run

A scheduled job that silently stops is often found weeks later, and a missed-run alert is cheap to provide.

Skills you can bring: Operations experience and taste for small developer tools

A shared viewer for coding-agent sessions, so a team can watch, comment on and take over a run

Coding agents run in one person's terminal, and teams want to review and steer that work together.

Skills you can bring: Building developer tools and leading a team that uses agents

Private hosting for the small internal tools teams now build with AI, for up to ten people

People can now build a small tool for their team in an afternoon, then have nowhere safe to share it.

Skills you can bring: Infrastructure experience and a feel for what non-engineers need

Résumé rewrites for senior engineers, written from their own pull requests and design docs

Senior engineers undersell their work, and the record of what they shipped is already written down.

Skills you can bring: Years of hiring engineers

Take-home tests and grading guides for small companies hiring a backend engineer

Small companies hire rarely and lack a fair, tested assignment, and a good grading guide saves hours per hire.

Skills you can bring: Experience interviewing many engineers

System-design interview practice for engineers, with an AI interviewer and a written debrief

Candidates want realistic practice on their own schedule, and a written debrief shows what to fix.

Skills you can bring: Having run many system-design interviews

A support agent for small software companies that answers from the docs and hands off hard cases

Founders answer the same questions every day, and most of the answers are already in their docs.

Skills you can bring: Experience running customer support for a software product

An API that reads freight invoice PDFs and returns clean data for logistics companies

Back offices still retype documents by hand, and one document type can be read very accurately.

Skills you can bring: Knowing one industry's paperwork and building data pipelines

A report for software teams on which of their open-source packages are abandoned or risky

Teams depend on hundreds of packages and can't tell which ones will cause the next outage or breach.

Skills you can bring: Years maintaining large codebases

An open-source license report on a startup's code before a funding round or sale

Investors and buyers ask about licenses late in a deal, and founders need the answer within days.

Skills you can bring: Knowledge of open-source licenses and careful writing

A daily email of the security advisories that affect a company's own software packages

General security feeds are noisy, and teams care only about the packages they actually run.

Skills you can bring: Security operations experience

A weekly email of breaking changes in the libraries a team uses, with upgrade notes

Upgrades cost less when teams see them coming, and changelogs are scattered across many sites.

Skills you can bring: Years of work in one programming language's ecosystem

Tests that run a team's AI prompts on each new model and show what changed

A model update can quietly change a product's answers, and teams want to see the difference before users do.

Skills you can bring: Experience shipping AI features

Labeled sample invoices for teams testing which AI model reads them best

Teams need realistic test data to compare AI models, and labeling a set takes days they don't have.

Skills you can bring: Knowing one task's edge cases and labeling data carefully

Issue sorting for open-source maintainers, with duplicates flagged and a weekly summary

Maintainers get more issues than they can read, and AI can sort them for a person to confirm.

Skills you can bring: Experience maintaining an open-source project

Code review comments for small teams that catch one framework's common mistakes

Small teams often lack a senior reviewer for their stack, and each framework's common mistakes are well known.

Skills you can bring: Senior experience in one framework

A bot that finds old feature flags in a team's code and opens pull requests to remove them

Old flags pile up into risky dead code, and removing them is tedious work nobody schedules.

Skills you can bring: Experience working in large codebases

A weekly report on a team's flaky tests, with the worst ones and their likely causes

Flaky tests waste hours of reruns each week, and the evidence already sits in the build logs.

Skills you can bring: Experience owning a team's build and test pipeline

Incident reports drafted from a team's chat and alerts, ready to review the next morning

Teams skip incident reports after a long night, and the timeline is already in the chat and alerts.

Skills you can bring: Experience running incidents and writing reviews of them

Morning handoff notes for on-call engineers, written from the night's alerts and fixes

Handoffs lose context across time zones, and a short written summary saves the next engineer an hour.

Skills you can bring: Years on call for production systems

Client libraries in three languages for API companies, built from their API spec and kept current

API companies need client libraries but can't staff them, and an accurate spec does most of the work.

Skills you can bring: Writing libraries in several programming languages

A tool that records, replays and compares webhooks for developers debugging them

Debugging webhooks means waiting for real events, and replaying a saved one skips the wait.

Skills you can bring: Experience building integrations between software systems

An API that checks email addresses and phone numbers on sign-up forms, priced per thousand checks

Fake and mistyped sign-ups waste money on email and support, and a check at the form stops them.

Skills you can bring: Building APIs and understanding email delivery

An API that turns web pages into screenshots and PDFs for developers, with caching

Rendering web pages reliably is fiddly work that most teams would rather pay for than run.

Skills you can bring: Experience running headless browsers at scale

App store review alerts for indie developers, sorted into bugs, feature requests and praise

Reviews reveal bugs before support tickets do, and indie developers rarely read every one.

Skills you can bring: Experience shipping mobile apps

A usage and revenue dashboard for a small software company, built on its own database in a week

Founders want usage and revenue in one place, and a focused one-week build beats a month of setup.

Skills you can bring: SQL and data modeling experience

A written guide to an old codebase for its new owner, covering what runs and what's risky

New owners and new hires lose weeks learning old code, and AI can read every file quickly.

Skills you can bring: Years working in old codebases

A fixed-price upgrade of one app to its framework's next major version, as a reviewed pull request

Major upgrades sit in backlogs for years, and a fixed price for a known upgrade is easy to approve.

Skills you can bring: Deep knowledge of one framework's upgrade path

Monthly upkeep for apps built with AI tools, covering updates, backups and small fixes

People who built an app without coding can't maintain it, and they'd rather pay than learn.

Skills you can bring: Broad web development experience

An accessibility review of a web app's main pages, with the fixes delivered as code changes

Teams want accessible products but lack the expertise, and fixes in code are worth more than a list.

Skills you can bring: Accessibility knowledge and front-end engineering

Translation of a small app into five languages, delivered as files ready to merge

Small apps miss sales abroad because translation looks like a big project, but the work is well defined.

Skills you can bring: Experience adapting software for other languages

An API reference and quickstart guide for a developer tool company

Docs decide whether developers adopt a tool, and the engineers building it rarely have time to write them.

Skills you can bring: Technical writing experience

Docs set up so AI coding agents can read them, for developer tool companies

More developers now learn a tool through their AI agent, and agents work best from clean, structured docs.

Skills you can bring: Experience with documentation tools and how AI agents read sources

One tested how-to page a week for a developer tool, written to be found in search

Developers search for how to do one thing, and a page that answers it brings sign-ups for years.

Skills you can bring: Experience writing for developers

A review of a rival developer tool's pricing, docs and sign-up, showing where to beat it

Teams need to know where a rival is weak, and its public pages, docs and sign-up show most of it.

Skills you can bring: Product strategy experience

Narrated video tours of a startup's codebase for onboarding new engineers

New hires lose weeks learning a codebase, and a recorded tour costs less than a senior engineer's time.

Skills you can bring: Explaining software architecture clearly

A weekly newsletter for working engineers on new AI research and what it changes in practice

Engineers can't read every paper, and they value someone turning research into practical decisions.

Skills you can bring: Reading research and building with AI models in production

Instruction packs that help coding agents write better code in one framework

Coding agents write better code with good project rules, and few teams have time to write and test them.

Skills you can bring: Expertise in one framework and experience setting up agents

A starter kit for building a booking app, with sign-in and payments already set up

Builders want to skip the same setup each time, and a kit for one kind of app saves more of it.

Skills you can bring: Experience building production web apps

Ready-made automation templates that handle new-client onboarding for small agencies

Small teams know what they want automated but not how to set it up, and a working template is enough.

Skills you can bring: Building automations and knowing one industry's routine work

Templates for new engineering managers, covering one-on-ones, reviews, hiring and planning

New managers start without a playbook, and good templates prevent common early mistakes.

Skills you can bring: Years of managing engineers

Security policies for a startup's first security audit, written to match its own systems

A first audit asks for a stack of policies, and founders would rather edit a draft than start from nothing.

Skills you can bring: Compliance experience and plain, exact writing

Evidence gathering for a startup's first security audit, with screenshots, settings and a checklist

Audits stall while teams collect proof from many tools, and much of it can be gathered on a schedule.

Skills you can bring: Experience preparing companies for security audits

A weekly summary of regulation changes for small fintech companies, with what each one requires

Small fintech companies can't staff a compliance team, and they need to know what changed and what to do.

Skills you can bring: Fintech or compliance experience

A weekly list of public software contracts for small development shops, filtered by size and skills

Governments post contracts in many places, and small shops miss the ones they could win.

Skills you can bring: Experience selling to public agencies

Alerts for product marketers when rival software companies change their pricing pages

Rival price changes matter to sales and marketing, and checking rivals' pages by hand is easy to forget.

Skills you can bring: Product marketing experience