About this project
An independent research project, run from India, measuring which freelance platforms are actually open to Indian engineers.
Why it started
It started as a personal problem. Applying for remote and contract engineering work from India means running into the same advice everywhere: sign up for Upwork, try Braintrust, make a Contra profile. After enough weeks of silence, the obvious question is whether those platforms were ever open in the first place.
So instead of guessing, each one got opened and counted. The answers were worse than expected, and specific enough to be worth writing down properly.
What this is
One PDF, sold once, at ₹20. There is no course, no mentorship, no community, no subscription, and no upsell after the download. If that changes, this page changes with it.
What it will never do
- Invent social proof. No testimonials we did not receive, no customer counts we cannot substantiate, no claim to have been around longer than we have. This project started in September 2026 and says so.
- Claim income we did not earn. The guide is a testing report, not a success story. It contains no screenshots of earnings, because that is not what it measured.
- Dress guesses as data. Every figure carries the date it was taken and the method that produced it. Where something was not measured, the guide says it was not measured.
This project is new, and pretending otherwise would undercut the only thing it is selling — that the numbers are real. What should earn your ₹20 is that the method is published on the methodology page and every claim is checkable, not that a landing page says "trusted by thousands".
Contact
Questions, corrections and refund requests all go to the same place, and a person answers: the support page.