Catch Real Pain.
Forge Real Clients.

PainForge is a free, open-source lead generation engine built specifically for freelancers, agencies, and consultants who are tired of fighting in saturated freelance marketplaces.

The Problem

Freelancers spend hours mindlessly scrolling forums or competing in crowded bidding wars against thousands of others. When they finally find a post from someone complaining about a problem they can fix, their pitch sounds like a generic robot. They get ignored.

The Solution

PainForge connects directly to Reddit to find people actively complaining about pain points your skills can solve. It then uses advanced AI to instantly generate a hyper-personalized, human-sounding pitch directly addressing their exact problem, complete with your portfolio and links.

How to Use PainForge

1

Setup Your Profile

Sign up and enter your Name, Portfolio, and GitHub. This teaches the AI who you are.

2

Connect OpenRouter

Bring your own key (BYOK). Connect your OpenRouter API key securely to enable the AI reasoning engine.

3

Target Subreddits

Add subreddits where your ideal clients hang out (e.g. startups, SaaS).

4

Scan & Generate

Click Scan. The AI analyzes the latest posts, scores them on buying intent, and writes your pitch.

Enterprise-Grade Security

PainForge is engineered with a security-first architecture, ensuring that your data, API credentials, and lead generation pipelines remain strictly confidential.

  • Decentralized Execution (BYOK): Leverage your own LLM API credentials. Requests are authenticated at the edge, ensuring zero proxy-logging or intermediate interception.
  • Cryptographic Isolation: Sensitive credentials are symmetrically encrypted at rest within isolated cloud environments. Tokens are never exposed to the client bundle, strictly bypassing persistent local storage.
  • Open-Source Verifiability: Transparency is the ultimate security layer. The platform architecture is entirely open-source, allowing for independent security audits and self-hosted deployments.

Architected by Aariz Mehdi

I built PainForge because the best clients aren't found fighting for scraps on freelance marketplaces—they are found actively complaining about their problems on forums.

I needed a tool that did more than just blindly scrape data. PainForge is built as a context engine designed to actually understand the psychology of outreach and generate proposals that sound like a real human offering a real solution.

Check out my portfolio to see more of my work, or follow the GitHub repo to contribute to the project!

Visit aarizm.dev